[OKFN-FR] Fwd: Announcing v3.0 of Froide – the Open-Source Python-Based Freedom of Information Platform - Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

Fri Mar 15 12:24:09 UTC 2013

Bonjour,

nous avons évoqué hier soir lors de l'AG le projet d'un portail du type
What Do They Know pour faire des demandes de jeux de données.

L'outil Froide qui fait tourner Frag den Staat fragdenstaat.de en Allemagne
a été mis à jour, voir article à la suite, avec de nouvelles option de
configuration et une documentation améliorée.

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http://blog.okfn.org/, des pépites chaque semaine

Samuel
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*Samuel Goëta* // +33646746441 // @samgoeta
Blog : http://coulisses-opendata.com

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Posted: 15 Mar 2013 05:00 AM PDT

I’m happy to announce version 3 release of
Froide<http://stefanw.github.com/froide/>,
the Open Source, Python-based platform for running Freedom of Information
portals. Froide has been in development for nearly two years. It has
powered the FOI portal in Germany <https://fragdenstaat.de/> for over a
year and a half and has recently been used to launch an Austrian FoI
site<https://fragdenstaat.at>
.

Full instructions for getting started with Froide can be found
here<https://froide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/gettingstarted/>,
and the source code is online on github
here<https://github.com/stefanw/froide>.This
latest release comes with the latest version of the Python web framework
Django 1.5 and Bootstrap 2.3. All other dependencies have also been
upgraded.

Some of the major features include:

   - Internationalized and localized – default language is English but a
   major deployment is in German!
   - Themable: create an easy Django App to theme and extend the platform
   - Configuration: change settings to fit your
needs<http://froide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration/>
   - Documentation: it’s easy to get started with detailed
docs<http://froide.readthedocs.org/>
   - Pluggable search backends (Solr, Xapian, Elasticsearch, Whoosh, DB)
   - Open Source: the code is in active development on
GitHub<http://stefanw.github.com/froide/>
   - Tested: High test coverage and in-browser tests ensure stability
   - And then some: find out more on the landing
page<http://stefanw.github.com/froide/>

FragDenStaat.de – Ask the State

Froide got started back in spring of 2011 when OKF Germany decided to
create an FOI site. Unfortunately at that time the code of WhatDoTheyKnow
was not ready to be used elsewhere (Alaveteli didn’t exist at all – plus,
it must be said I’m a pythonista and it was ruby app!). I therefore started
building an FOI platform based on Python/Django for Germany,
internationalized from the ground up. After four months of coding and
preparations we launched FragDenStaat.de <https://fragdenstaat.de> – the
German FOI portal – in August 2011.

Since then the software has seen continuous improvements and new features.
Several of these additional features have been motivated by specific
requirements for Germany, like tracking the cost of a request, uploading
postal replies from authorities, hiding requester names from the public and
redacting PDFs online. Froide leverages the power of the Django admin that
allows community moderators to help with administration tasks and guide
requesters on their FOI journey.

Just recently FragDenStaat.de got a little brother: the Austrian FOI portal
FragDenStaat.at <https://fragdenstaat.at> got off the ground and will track
the development of the upcoming FOI legislation in Austria.
Challenges Overcome

Over the last two years, the German FOI community have struggled with – and
overcome – many FOI oddities: baseless cost threats, lot of anti-digital
behaviour, and very creative excuses for why information cannot be
released. FragDenStaat.de has send out more than 3000 requests and the
Federal FOI statistic for 2012 is at an all time high with more than a
third of requests delivered and tracked by FragDenStaat.de.

One of the most interesting stories was a ban on publishing documents
received through FOI: the German parliament had sent over a report on MP
corruption but denied the right to publish it on the grounds of copyright.
Any citizen could get and read the report by requesting it, but nobody was
allowed to share it freely! This Kafkaesque situation made it difficult to
spread the word and limited public debate on the topic. But we quickly came
up with a solution to this problem: one-click requests for that specific
document in your name. We quickly got hundreds of people to make this
request and sparked a debate about the topic. Even though the documents
have been leaked on the net, the German parliament still refuses to publish
them. The matter will soon be resolved in front of a judge, but until then
we continue to provide an easy means to request the documents and take a
stand for FOI.
Colophon

Froide and FragDenStaat.de are civic coding projects of the Open Knowledge
Foundation Germany. Check out their other projects.<http://okfn.de/projects/>

This article would also be incomplete without a shout out here to
Alaveteli<http://www.alaveteli.org/>– the excellent Open Source Ruby
on Rails FOI software built by the great
folks at MySociety <http://www.mysociety.org/> – and to
WhatDoTheyKnow<http://whatdotheyknow.com>,
the original FOI site built by MySociety for the UK, which inspired both
FragDenStaat and many other sites around the world.

OpenGLAM at GLAM-Wiki 2013
conference<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/okfn/~3/Cb1OJS_5Ap0/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>

Posted: 15 Mar 2013 04:59 AM PDT

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*Just one month to go before cultural experts from all over the world will
come to London for an international celebration of open access and culture.
GLAM-Wiki 2013 is a global conference, organised by the Wikimedia UK
chapter in association with Wikimedia Sweden and Europeana, and hosted by
the British Library. It examines the possibilities, relationships and
potential for galleries, libraries, archives and museums in working with
Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. The conference will take place on the
weekend of 12-14 April at the British Library in London.*

This conference will have two main themes. On Friday, the work the
Wikimedia movement has been doing with cultural organisations will be
explained to showcase what partnerships and opportunities are available.
You will hear first-hand how some institutions are already leveraging the
connection between sharing a part of their own collections with Wikimedia
and seeing some amazing benefits – such as a sharp increase in traffic to
their websites and an increase in sales of merchandising. Attendees will be
able to better understand the crossover of mutual interest that Wikimedians
share with curators of cultural heritage to further each other’s goals. On
Saturday, the conference will focus on the more practical sides of the
Wikimedia-GLAM collaborations, with workshops and discussions to develop
ideas.

During this two days conference, the entire OpenGLAM
team<http://openglam.org/about-2/>team will be present to talk about
open cultural data, open content and the
public domain. Besides that, the organisation managed to attract an
impressive group of international keynote speakers. The list includes Michael
Edson <http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Michael+Edson> of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Lizzy
Jongma<https://twitter.com/LizzyJongma>of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
and Nick
Poole <http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/about-us/staff/nick-poole/> of
the Collections Trust in London.

As well as the keynote speakers there will be plenty of other activities
taking place throughout the conference covering a broad range of topics
related to the conference theme. You can see the schedule
here<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013/Schedule>Tickets are
available <http://glamwiki2013.eventbrite.co.uk/> for the conference and
are priced from £15 to £40, with some scholarships available.

We hope to see many of you there!

Join #FreeBassel Day to call for the immediate release of open web advocate
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Posted: 15 Mar 2013 01:32 AM PDT

*On March 15, 2012, Bassel Khartabil was detained in a wave of arrests in
the Mazzeh district of Damascus. Since then, his family has received no
official explanation for his detention or information regarding his
whereabouts. However, his family has recently learned from previous
detainees at the security branch of Kafer Sousa, Damascus, that Bassel is
being held at this location.*
 <http://freebassel.org/>

Campaign launched to bring home loved and celebrated internet volunteer
detained in Syria since 15/03/2012

Since then, Bassel has become known worldwide for his strong commitment to
the open web, teaching others about technology, and contributing his
experience freely to help the world. Bassel is the project leader for an
open source web software called Aiki Framework. He is well known in online
technical communities as a dedicated volunteer to major Internet projects
like Creative Commons <http://www.creativecommons.org>, Mozilla
Firefox<http://www.mozilla.org>,
Wikipedia <http://www.wikipedia.org>, Open Clip Art
Library<http://www.openclipart.org>,
Fabricatorz <http://www.fabricatorz.com>, and Sharism<http://www.sharism.org>
.

Since his arrest, Bassel’s valuable volunteer work, both in Syria and
around the world, has been stopped. His absence has been painful for the
communities that depend on him. In addition, his family, and his fiancée
whom he was due to marry this past April, have had their lives put on hold.

Bassel Khartabil has been unjustly detained for many months without trial
or any legal charges being brought against him.

This day is the one year anniversary of the illegal jailing of Bassel
Khartibil, well known free internet pioneer, software engineer, teacher,
husband, family-man and friend. Bassel is a normal guy, in a bad situation.
He is now stuck in a Syrian jail cell where he is not able to directly
contribute to his local and global communities. We demand his captors to
#FREEBASSEL!

To end this unjust detainment as soon as possible, actions are organised
around the world on March 15th. The Open Knowledge Foundation supports this
initiative and calls for everyone to sign the petition for immediate
release on Freebassel.org <http://freebassel.org>!

An Open Knowledge Platform on Building Energy Performance to Mitigate
Climate Change<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/okfn/~3/CSuA4ZdoGaw/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 08:18 AM PDT

Buildings account for more than 30% of final energy use and energy-related
carbon emissions in the world today. This sector has the potential to play
a crucial role in mitigating the global challenge of climate change.
However, the building industry is a local industry and the sector is
fragmented at all levels, from planning to design and practical
construction and over its various technical aspects.

In this context, how best to help the sector deliver its global mitigation
potential? Our answer at the Global Buildings Performance
Network<http://www.gbpn.org/>(GBPN) is collaboration: stimulating
collective knowledge and analysis from
experts and building professionals worldwide to advance best building
performance policies and solutions that can support better decision-making.
At the cornerstone of this strategy is our new Linked Open Data website
launched on the 21st of February. This web-based tool is unique in that it
has been designed as a global participatory open data knowledge hub:
harvesting, curating and creating global best knowledge and data on
building performance policies.

As the energy performance of buildings becomes central to any effective
strategy to mitigate climate change, policymakers, investors and project
developers, members of governmental institutions and multilateral
organisations need better access to building performance data and knowledge
to design, evaluate and compare policies and programmes from around the
world.

The GBPN encourages transparent availability and access to reliable data.
The GBPN data can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone (as
provided under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 3.0 FR license.) –
subject to the requirement to attribute and share alike. In addition, the
GBPN Knowledge Platform has been developed making use of Linked Open Data
technology and principles to connect with the best online resources. The
GBPN Glossary is linked to DBpedia as well as the reegle’s Clean Energy and
Climate Change Thesaurus <http://www.reegle.info/glossary> developed
by the Renewable
Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership <http://www.reeep.org> (REEEP) and
(REN21). A “News Aggregator Tool” service is also
available<http://bit.ly/13JLJqk>.
And our platform connects to our Regional Hubs data portals:
Buildingsdata.eu<http://www.gbpn.org/databases-tools/data-hub-energy-performance-buildings>,
the open data portal for energy efficiency in European buildings developed
by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe <http://www.bpie.eu> (BPIE),
and Buildingrating.org<http://www.gbpn.org/databases-tools/building-energy-rating-policies>,
the
leading online tool for sharing global best practices on building rating
and disclosure policies launched by the Institute for Market
Transformation<http://www.imt.org/>(IMT) in 2011.

One of the main features of the website is the “Policy Comparative
Tool<http://bit.ly/YSbD9S>”
enabling comparison of the world’s best practice policies for new
buildings. By understanding how countries have designed and implemented
best practice codes, policy makers can use this information to strengthen
the future design of dynamic policies. The tool provides interactive data
visualization and analytics.

The GBPN aims to facilitate new synergies with energy efficiency experts
and building professionals worldwide. For this purpose, the new website
offers a Laboratory <http://www.gbpn.org/laboratory>, a participatory
research collaboration tool for building energy efficiency experts to share
information and generate new knowledge on how best to develop ambitious
building energy performance policies globally.

The GBPN will be enriching its data over time with additional topics and
information generated through data exchange projects and research
partnerships and is inviting any interested organisations to suggest any
opportunities for collaboration.

The GBPN Open Knowledge Platform has been developed together with the Semantic
Web Company <http://www.semantic-web.at>, a consulting company and
technology provider providing semantic information management solutions
with a strong focus on Open Data and Linked Open Data principles and
technologies.
About the GBPN:

The Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN) is a globally organised and
regionally focused network whose mission is to advance best practice
policies that can significantly reduce energy consumption and associated
CO2 emissions from buildings. We operate a Global Centre based in Paris and
are represented by Hubs and Partners in four regions: China, India, Europe
and the United States. By promoting building energy performance globally,
we strive to tackle climate change while contributing to the planet’s
economic and social wellbeing.

Follow us on Twitter @GBPNetwork
Contact us at info at gbpn.org – www.gbpn.org
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