[okfn-discuss] incubator.okfn.org

[Jonathan Gray]

Hi all,

Rufus and I were recently talking about the OKF's project 'incubator'
and I suggested turning this into a project in its own right.

There are so many interested ideas kicking around - that I think it
would be useful to have a project dedicated to documenting and
refining these! This could be anything from entirely new open
knowledge/data/content projects (like 'Where Does My Money Go?'), to
tools to 'scratch an itch' (e.g. scripts to convert MoinMoin syntax to
Markdown, scraping texts from Project Gutenberg and stripping out
header/footer to make them public domain,...).

The incubator project could let people propose, vote and comment on
ideas. Mike Chelen recently suggested we could use IdeaTorrent (GPL)
for this:

  http://www.ideatorrent.org/

What do people think? Would anyone be interested in having a go at
setting up and tweaking an instance at incubator.okfn.org?

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org