[okfn-labs] Ideas for simple mini-projects we could do - RFC

Sun Jul 15 09:53:59 UTC 2012

Great! Is there a timeframe for this? E.g. would it make sense to
establish quarterly iterations (Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, Oct-Dec)?
Which would mean that we are currently on an iteration which ends in
September - perhaps around OKFestival? ;-)

I've added some ideas to the pad. Some culture/humanities apps ideas -
and an idea for an investigation on Europe's dirty energy lobby,
including some links.

J.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been thinking a bit about how we could plan mini-projects be that to
> build stuff or do an "investigation" of some kind.
>
> I've made some notes in an etherpad here: http://labs.okfnpad.org/ideas
> (also inlined below).
>
> Comments, additional idea suggestions, expressions of interest all welcome
> :-)
>
> Rufus
>
>
> # June/July 2012
>
> 1. Pull together ideas for mini-apps or investigations to do. These should
> be things achievable in 1-2 weeks (perhaps using max 2-4 person weeks of
> effort) and would be something people would interested in doing a sprint on.
>
> 2. Choose ideas to work on. Once we have ideas we choose 1/2 to work on with
> a specific deadline and window of time when we work on it. (Can have more if
> enough people interested - probably if 2-3 *committed* people per item)
>
> 3. We do it. May include a one day virtual hackday along the way.
>
>
> ###############################################
> # Ideas
> ###############################################
>
> Please add your own to the initial examples provided here!
>
> ## Apps
>
> ### openliterature.net = textus + gutenizer
>
> http://openliterature.net/ - Gutenberg texts in Textus or similar
>
> ### texts.annotateit.org - upload a text and get annotating
>
> * would this be better using textus (+ git(hub) / gists)
>
> ### Pybossa
>
>   * transcriber
>   * reconciler
>
> ### wikipedia.js - js script to get data on wikipedia articles via dbpedia
> ...
>
> Connect to dbpedia virtuoso endpoint and give back key info.
>
> ### timeliner - https://github.com/okfn/timeliner
>
>
> ## Investigations
>
> ### Greek crisis
>
> * What's going on?
> * Connection with OpenSpending
>
> ### Olympics (spending etc)
>
>   * Extend to Rio + World Cup (??)
>
> ### Bailii scrape
>
> Large amount of commercial litigation takes place in London.
>
> ### Financial Crisis
>
> What happened, who won, who lost out.
>
> Application of timeliner etc.
>
> ### Leeveson enquiry
>
> * What would we do: full text search, entity extraction
>
>
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