[okfn-discuss] >>> Ideas Incubator Update <<<

Fri Nov 18 09:13:00 UTC 2011

On 17 November 2011 17:33, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There are plenty of ideas currently germinating in the hothouse of
> innovation that is the OKF's Ideas Incubator. Recent additions to the
> Incubator include some thoughts on how to reuse data on data.gov.uk
> (http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/239/datagovuk-ideas) and an idea for an Open
> Gateway Project (http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/240/opengateway).

Great stuff Sam. Really useful hightlighting these.

> There are a number of other items that continue to garner considerable
> interest, and it would be great if everyone in the community could see
> what's been said already and chip in their two pennies' worth.
>
> I've listed three of the most viewed and commented on ideas below:
>
> 1. An idea for a web based client for the #okfn IRC channel
> (http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/55/ircokfnorg)

I note this idea has been 'resolved/answered'. (Not completely obvious
when viewing, but note green tick on first answer and green surround).
You can get just unresolved / unanswered ideas by looking at:

<http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/noresponse/>

BTW: this does *not* mean no-one has commented or proposed something
but that no final resolution has  been obtained.

> 2. An idea for a guide that helps non-developers get, use and share open
> data (http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/68/opendata-for-non-developers)

Big +1. I think this is best done in http://datapatterns.org/ (see
response on the idea).

> 3. An idea for open data training courses
> (http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/220/training-courses)
>
> Please do keep posting your ideas up in the Ideas Incubator, it's a great
> way to develop and share ideas for future projects.

+1 :-)

Rufus