[okfn-labs] okfnlabs.org

Tue Mar 6 19:39:14 UTC 2012

Well, sure, but I think we can achieve this without the expansive
scope of the dashboard.

e.g. http://okfnlabs.org/githubActivity.js/

-N

P.S. Mass-assignment -- lol!

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 19:27, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> N
>
> On 6 Mar 2012, at 16:39, Tom Rees <zephod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And, in fact, we have funding for the latter.
> The 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> 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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