[okfn-help] CKAN user requirements half-day?

Mon Jan 18 11:31:43 UTC 2010

Great to hear that there is interest in having a virtual session to
discuss CKAN UI stuff, CKAN/Opengov.x interoperability and suchlike!
(I guess the title will be something like 'Open government data
registry requirements'?)

Antti: can we action you with fixing a date/time that suits the main
people interested in participating with this? E.g. with a doodle poll,
say in February? (Not sure if weekday or weekend is better, AM or PM,
etc.)

Also it would be great if people could add relevant ideas/discussion points to:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/ideas

Jonathan

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David Eaves <david at eaves.ca> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> As someone seeking to set up a site that aggregates open data sets I'd love
> to be part of the discussion and help out as well.
>
> best,
> dave
> C: 778-227-4235
> www.eaves.ca
>
> On 10-01-15 8:52 AM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>>
>> Hi Antti and others
>>
>> I think this is really a great idea and I am happy to join / help.
>>
>> On 14.01.2010, at 19:43, Antti Poikola wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jonathan and others,
>>>
>>> I will forward this email to the opengov_data developer list:
>>> opengov_data at googlegroups.com
>>>
>>> Jussi Arpalahti made recently a quick review on the CKAN codebase and
>>> hopefully shares his thoughts with you guys.
>>>
>>> Basically it seems that opengov is so far much lighter and simpler
>>> implementation that CKAN. CKAN is more datawarehouse oriented where the
>>> opnegov is more usercommunity and UI oriented, though, not yet fully
>>> implemented. In my opinion replicating things in two projects (developing
>>> community approach, discussion and UI in CKAN or developing advanced data
>>> directory related features in opengov) should be avoided if possible. On the
>>> other hand putting two systems in one stack is not allways so straight
>>> forward.
>>>
>>> Of course this question goes beyond technology and the vision for good
>>> data catalogues should be developed further. In Finland we have some
>>> financial backing for developing the opengov further and I might be able to
>>> get some more for something useful, but before that I would like to push
>>> more the development of "international data catalogue builder community".
>>>
>>> So I suggest that (in this order):
>>>
>>> 1. Jussi shares his questions and thoughts for this group.
>>>
>>> 2. One of the CKAN developers takes a quick look at the opengov code
>>> base: http://code.google.com/p/opengov-catalog/
>>>
>>> 3. Before going to wiki, let's have an 1,5 hour data catalogue visioning
>>> session at Skype+Etherpad. After points 1 and 2, if there is interest for
>>> this point 3, I can coordinate the scheduling.
>>>
>>
>> I agree with the steps proposed and looking forward to jump in at step 3.
>>
>> Best greetings
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -Jogi
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Several people interested in using CKAN as a registry of open
>>>> (government) data in their country have expressed an interest in
>>>> having either a new front end, a different 'theme' and/or more user
>>>> features.
>>>>
>>>> Antti Poikola (Finland), Daniel Dietrich (Germany) and James Burke
>>>> (Netherlands) are going to take a lead in suggesting improvements and
>>>> features that they would like to see, as well as in comparing it to
>>>> other similar sites/projects. Perhaps as David Eaves (Canada) is also
>>>> thinking about this, he might like to join in too?
>>>>
>>>> I suggest that Antti, Daniel, James and David (if he is interested),
>>>> add their ideas and suggestions to the OKF wiki:
>>>>
>>>>  http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/ideas
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps, once they have done this, we can then schedule in a meeting
>>>> with core CKAN developers/designers to talk about this. E.g. sometime
>>>> in February? Also several people have suggested the possibility of
>>>> finding other designers/developers (Python) to help out with this in
>>>> respective countries...
>>>>
>>
>> We are starting a little working group here at opendata network in Germany
>> to discus what features, functionalities, etc we would like to see for a
>> german data.gov.de - we also might find some coding recourses for coding /
>> design.
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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Jonathan Gray

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