[okfn-discuss] Weekly update bulletin, 28th November 2011

[Laura Newman]

*Correction*

The International Digital Curation Conference will be taking place
from*Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th December
*in Bristol. Apologies for the incorrect date in the previous email.



On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Here is the first of our *new* weekly update bulletins. Please find below
> a summary of the key events that are coming up, as well as an overview of
> the exciting things that some of the working groups have been getting up to
> recently.
>
> We hope to produce this bulletin on a weekly basis, following on from the
> new projects update call which will be taking place on a Monday. If you
> have something you would like us to include, you can either get in touch
> with your working group coordinator, or send information directly to us at
> info at okfn.org.
>
> We hope you enjoy this opportunity to find out about all the great things
> that are taking place across the Open Knowledge Network!
>
> *
> # Key Updates & Events
>
> ** Open Data Day, Saturday 3rd December. A team will be meeting at the
> Barbican, but you can get involved from wherever you are! See
> http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/London-GB/536442/
> * CKAN is currently hiring UX/UI designers and front end folk. Get in
> touch with Ira if you know of anyone who may be suitable.
> * Ira and Mark MacGillivray will be attending the International Digital
> Curation Conference in Bristol on Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th December. Get
> in touch if you know of people there who they should talk to.
> * Open Linguistics LOD Drive to form a linguistics LOD cloud, ongoing
> until Thursday 15th December.
>
>
> *# Updates from individual projects
> *
> *## Open Humanities (James Harriman-Smith)*
>
> * Setting up Open Humanities website (James Harriman-Smith and Sam Leon)
> * Continuing discussions about incorporating new annotations from another
> system into Open Shakespeare
> * Organised first Open Humanities Skype call for 5pm Wednesday 14th
> December.
> *
> ## Open Development (Tim Davies)*
>
> * Supporting open-development working group on behalf of AidInfo.org
> * Group has been very focussed on aid data in the run up to a High Level
> Forum on Aid Effectiveness, but is hoping to broaden in the future.
> * Held satellite workshop at recent Open Data Camp. Discussions emerging
> around seeking funding for a part-time co-ordinator to engage with NGOs,
> Govs and Communities around open development data (being led by Claudia
> Schwegmann http://www.openaid.de/)
>
> *## Open Linguistics (Sebastian Nordhoff)
> *
> * Continuing organziation workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics as part
> of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society
> http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/
> * Linguistic LOD Drive until December 15 to form a linguistics LOD cloud
> * Several publications by working group members in scientific outlets to
> promote LOD
>
> *## CKAN (Ira Bolychevsky)*
>
> * CKAN is the open source open data platform provider, powering
> data.gov.uk, openspending, and soon the world. Info/client site:
> http://ckan.org/. Community site for anyone to add open data to:
> http://thedatahub.org/
> * 3 from the CKAN team will be at the Barbican for Open Data Day on Sat
> 3rd: http://ddj.okfnpad.org/open-data-day. Get Involved!
> * Going to the International Digital Curation Conference:
> http://www.dcc.ac.uk/node/9172 Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th December. Let
> me know if you know anyone there I should talk to.
> * Currently hiring & interviewing UX/UI designers & front end folk. If you
> know anyone good, please let me know ASAP.
> * Ira has been CKAN Product owner since July, project managing data.gov.uk& helping out community & client management
>
> *## Open Spending (Friedrich Lindenberg)*
>
> * Hired new programmer in Germany
> * UI Loading for OpenSpending, getting ready for Open Data Day
> * Some data wrangling: EU FTS, CAP, Italy, UK25k -> New tooling in recon
> library, messytables.
>
> *## Public Domain Review (Adam Green)*
>
> * Working with Sam Leon to try get our sign up numbers increasing – if
> anyone has any ideas then would be great to hear them!
> * Also any general thoughts on the site and the work we are doing…
>
> *## OKFN Labs (Tom Rees)*
>
> * We’re booting up an umbrella project to take all the smaller OKFN
> projects under its wing. So on the surface, the Foundation isn’t doing 54
> things – it’s doing three or so (CKAN, OpenSpending, Labs…) and all our
> experiments are wrapped up in Labs. It’s an incubator and a place to start
> new experiments.
> * Also an Okfn.org redesign: Building a modern webdesign for the OKFN
> homepage & subsites. This has been on our TODO list for too long!
>
> *## New Foundation Coordinator (Laura James)*
>
> * Focusing on fundraising and bids in Nov/Dec
>
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