[okfn-labs] crowdcrafting.org vs pybossa.com

Fri Jan 4 10:33:05 UTC 2013

Thanks Francois. This sounds like an excellent plan! :-)

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Francois Grey <francois.grey at cern.ch> wrote:

>  Dear Lucy, Theodora,
>
>  Happy New Year!
>
>  Sorry that this got buried in the pre-holiday mayhem, but I think the
> timing is now better than ever, since our Sloan grant for Crowdcrafting.org
> starts officially this month. Also we've had quite some online buzz for the
> Philippines Typhoon app that Daniel helped launch a few weeks ago.
>
>  What I propose to do is to draft a press release for CERN about this.
> This is a long-shot, since they're quite fussy about what constitutes news
> - the Higgs boson sets a high bar ;) But since the LHC just shut down two
> weeks ago for a two–year upgrade, the press office may be glad to have some
> other news in the pipeline.
>
>  If this goes through, it will have a large impact, as the science press
> follows CERN's PRs assiduously. We have had huge surges of interest in
> other CCC-related projects on the back of CERN PRs. Indeed, as Daniel can
> attest from our LHC at home announcement last year, we will have to prep
> carefully for how to deal with the onslaught of attention.
>
>  CERN is shut down for the holidays until Monday, so I will endeavour to
> write a draft over the weekend and circulate it at CERN next week, as well
> as to you at OKFN and to our Sloan contacts, so each organization can adapt
> their own version and make simultaneous announcements.
>
>  Just to give you an idea of the timescale here, assuming the CERN press
> office wants to go ahead with this, it will take them at least a week to
> clear the PR, probably two.
>
>  Hope that plan sounds ok.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Francois
>
>   From: Theodora Middleton <theodora.middleton at okfn.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:08 AM
> To: Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
> Cc: François GREY <francois.grey at cern.ch>, Daniel Lombraña González <
> teleyinex at gmail.com>, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>,
> okfn-labs <okfn-labs at lists.okfn.org>, Rufus Pollock <
> rufus.pollock at okfn.org>, Open Knowledge Foundation <blog at okfn.org>
>
> Subject: Re: [okfn-labs] crowdcrafting.org vs pybossa.com
>
>  Yes for sure - send over when ready.
>
> t
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Fantastic, Francois - let us know when and we'll get it up!
>>
>> cc'ing Theo - as I'm likely to be in a meeting all day on Weds & Thurs
>> and Friedrich is also away this week, could we possibly ask you to put
>> this up on the Labs blog for us? I'll leave it up to you about whether
>> it should also go on the main OKFN blog!
>>
>> Lucy
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Francois Grey <francois.grey at cern.ch>
>> wrote:
>> > Excellent idea. I'll draft something short-and-sweet that we could
>> share on
>> > various sites.
>> >
>> > By Wednesday, ok?
>> >
>> > Francois
>> >
>> > From: Daniel Lombraña González <teleyinex at gmail.com>
>> > Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 4:03 PM
>> > To: Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>
>> > Cc: Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>, okfn-labs
>> > <okfn-labs at lists.okfn.org>, François GREY <francois.grey at cern.ch>,
>> Rufus
>> > Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [okfn-labs] crowdcrafting.org vs pybossa.com
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I think so :-) But before moving forward I think that Francois Grey and
>> > Rufus were discussing about this, so let's wait a bit before publishing
>> > anything. I'm CC both of them, so let's see how we proceed :-)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
>> > <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Would love to have the labs post, maybe also briefly mention some of
>> the
>> >> cool campaigns you're running at the moment?
>> >>
>> >> - Fr.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Daniel,
>> >>>
>> >>> Would it make sense to do a quick blog post on the reasons for the
>> >>> rename?
>> >>>
>> >>> Friedrich - a labs post?
>> >>>
>> >>> L
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Daniel Lombraña González
>> >>> <teleyinex at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> > I'll create the new keys soon, sorry for all the problems with this
>> >>> > issue.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org>
>> >>> >> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Hi Tom,
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> We did switch from pybossa.com to crowdcrafting.org.  I believe
>> an
>> >>> >>> issue was filed and fixed about Google OAuth.  If this is still an
>> >>> >>> issue, could you please file an issue on
>> >>> >>> github.com/PyBossa/PyBossa/issues?
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> It was reported a couple of days ago:
>> >>> >>  https://github.com/PyBossa/pybossa/issues/264
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Tom
>> >>> >>
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