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[Friedrich Lindenberg]

Hey, 


On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Nick Stenning wrote:

> At the same time, I think we should exploit -- as far as is possible -- information and activity that's already available. GitHub activity, mailing list posts, and the like are ready sources of evidence of life in these projects. Of course, that's not to preclude including blog posts in the mix...
> 
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I love the idea of making things document themselves, but I'd make this the second step. The dashboard (this is essentially it) was supposed to do this as a quick weekend hack but I think its having its first birthday soon. 
> Does somebody want to point me in the direction of the code and/or servers that run this site?
I think its on github and you can edit it via mass assignment. 

- Fr. 
 
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> N
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> On 6 Mar 2012, at 16:39, Tom Rees <zephod at gmail.com (mailto:zephod at gmail.com)> wrote:
> 
> > And, in fact, we have funding for the latter. 
> > The okfnlabs.org (http://okfnlabs.org) site was close to done until a recent refactor saw the Jekyll theme rebuilt. I didn't check it very thoroughly it seems...
> > The things we are actively working on in Labs seem to be: 
> > * Me on RevenueWatch contract
> > * Me on Dashboard (theoretically)
> > * Nick on Annotator
> > * Friedrich on Grano
> > * Somebody (Nick?) on the WorldBank contract
> > 
> > I'm not sure where Gregor is at the moment, and Friedrich I'm not sure what other projects you're hacking away on which could be filed under Labs.
> > The future is clearly bright for contract work, but I think Labs is worth more than that - we can fund and finish experimental projects or products which aren't likely to become profit centres. Our website is a useful place to send people who are looking for ways the OKFN could help them, or for ways that they could help the OKFN. Ideally I'd like to build a community there, though -- and in our Shuttleworth funding bid that is something we've claimed we will do. Your thoughts are appreciated, gentlemen.
> > 
> > - Tom
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org (mailto:friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org)> wrote:
> > > This has already been the topic of some discussion. I really think we want to have a jekyll blog and some nice hand-crafted tool and portfolio pages there instead of the current spreadsheet thing. We should also merge in the vis labs site (no need to have two imo).  
> > > 
> > > This is basically where we decide if labs is going to be our "projects attic" or an actual community that people can engage with. I'm eager for the latter.  
> > > 
> > > - Friedrich 
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Nick Stenning wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Seeing as this mailing list is now called okfn-labs (!?), I'm guessing
> > > > this is the right place to point out that we currently have a website
> > > > live with "Page Title" as the title and "Widget content goes here..."?
> > > > 
> > > > http://okfnlabs.org/
> > > > 
> > > > -N
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