[okfn-discuss] torrents for sharing datasets

Wed Apr 15 18:18:02 UTC 2015

On 15 April 2015 at 19:13, Jan Gondol <gondol at gondol.sk> wrote:

> Since this is a CKAN extension, I think that anyone is free to install and
> use it. Any CKAN devs around here who would care to comment how to make our
> newly developed / improved CKAN extensions as useful as possible and
> available to others?
>

Would suggest posting on ckan-dev:
https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev

BTW: have you submitted this to Extension Registry:
http://extensions.ckan.org/add/

> By the way, we did have _another_ requirement in Module Open Data of
> eDemocracy project (which includes data.gov.sk redesign): to make all
> modifications and improvements to open source components (such as CKAN)
> publicly available for upstream porting. The idea was this: since the
> project is being developed using public money, let us create public value.
>

This is great to hear. Please do share with ckan devs and you may want to
go to one of the CKAN Association Technical Team calls:
http://ckan.org/about/technical-team/

Regards,

Rufus

> I hope that many publicly funded projects will result in releasing source
> code under an open license and also serve to improve / build upon the
> existing software. We'll see how our own experiment works out and whether
> our contributions will be useful.
>
> If you have suggestions on open source policy development and
> implementation, I'd be happy to talk!
> Jan
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:11 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 01:23:30PM +0200, Jan Gondol wrote:
>> > Stef, it seems that the company working on the data.gov.sk redesign
>> > (Microcomp) has already released some code (CKAN extension for torrent
>> > publishing): https://github.com/microcomp/ckanext-torrent -- I haven't
>> > tested it though, feel free to play.
>>
>> sounds great! will this be committed upstream? i like the idea of ckan
>> doing
>> torrents. myself, i have only a dozen or so datasets, makes little sense
>> to
>> setup a ckan for only those, there's existing ones. the eu opendata
>> portal,
>> for example would be a nice place to list our datasets i guess. would
>> that be
>> possible?
>>
>> --
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