[okfn-help] Who owns OpenGovernmentData.org?

Wed Dec 21 20:52:26 UTC 2011

Dear all,

I did feel responsibility for the site until this summer. From my understanding Tim McNamara was taking over responsibility then. But I might got something wrong. @Tim, whats you understanding on this? 

If nobody is looking after the site I volunteer to take lead on it again.

All the best
Daniel

On 21 Dec 2011, at 16:20, 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 * Data competitions list is probably outdated.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 (yet) outdated.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