[okfn-help] Who owns OpenGovernmentData.org?

Wed Dec 21 15:22:35 UTC 2011

And... a possible migration task/ticket:

http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010/

(and subpages)

to:

http://ogdcamp.org/2010

:-S

J.

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> OpenGovernmentData.org is potentially a great place to point people
> who are interested in open government data to.
>
> But it seems in need of a spring clean.
>
> In particular:
>
>  * Too many short names with links! What are all of these pages? Do
> we really need them all? Could we do some pruning to make everything
> streamlined and simpler?
>  * More impact on front page. Video. Sentence in big writing.
> Picture. Link. Bam. There's way too much stuff all over the place at
> the moment.
>  * http://opengovernmentdata.org/data/catalogues/ should point to
> datacatalogs.org
>  * Data competitions list is probably outdated. Either we should
> update it (pinging open-government list) or possibly link to it from
> somewhere for historical purposes. We don't need to link to
> *everything* from everywhere. We could have a list of resources /
> descriptions on a 'further resources' page somewhere.
>  * Bulletin - IMO either we need to dogfood this with events we know
> about (so its not *completely* empty!) or retire it, or hide it. What
> about encouraging people to use OKFN meetup page instead?
>  * Events - same. Do we need it? Who maintains this? Do our community
> team know that it exists and how to add to it?
>  * Film - hooray! Great! Standalone. Doesn't need maintenance. Isn't
> (yet) outdated. But link is broken ;-(
> http://opengovernmentdata.org/film/
>
> It would be really good if someone were able to give this a revamp so
> we could point people to it with pride! Also think we need to have a
> main contact person / maintainer who can look after this in future...
>
> I almost feel that we should archive the current page and simply have
> a one page site with:
>
>  * Film embedded in middle of page
>  * Open government data is ... [in a sentence, big crisp letters]
>
> And little noun project icons / sentence pointing to other stuff, including:
>
>  * Open data near you (data/catalog icon): [link to datacatalogs.org]
>  * Open data meetups near you (group/people icon): [link to OKFN meetup page]
>
>  * Connect with people interested in open data around the world (mail
> icon): [sign up box for open-government mailing list]
>  * Join the conversation on Twitter (tweet bird icon): #opendata
>
>  * Learn how to open up data (book icon): [link to opendatamanual.org]
>  * Examples of open data in action: [in future - link to
> TheDataHub.org app/visualisation gallery]
>
> In future:
>
>  * Open data meetup listing on http://lanyrd.com/
>  * Selection of open data event photos from Flickr group
>
> What do people think?
>
> J.
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://www.okfn.org
>
> http://twitter.com/jwyg

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Jonathan Gray

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