[Open-data-census] Open Data Census and Global Open Data Index technical update

[Mor Rubinstein]

Hi Matthew and all,

Sorry for the late reply.
This is an excellent idea! Feedback is always welcome and it will make the
census even better.

I booted a doodle poll here - http://doodle.com/ayvtick478m445hb
Please fill it so we can arrange a time to meet.

All the best,
Mor

On 8 May 2015 at 19:10, Matthew McNaughton <matthew at slashroots.org> wrote:

> Greetings Mor,
>
> Thank you for sharing an update on the Open Data census and also your
> presentation in Ottawa. I will be in Canada and have earmarked your session
> to attend. If other persons using the platform will be present, it might be
> good to have a separate meet/conversation with the different organizations
> that are using the census platform to talk about their experiences and also
> to provide feedback to yourself and the team.
>
> -MMM
>
> ---
> Executive Director
> SlashRoots Foundation
> www.slashroots.org
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Mor Rubinstein <mor.rubinstein at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Stephen,
>>
>> I am really glad you are looking into different kinds of benchmarking.
>> Tim Davies and I will present a paper about open data assessment in Ottawa.
>> It will look at the census alongside other tools and I encourage all of you
>> who will be in Canada to come and participate in this season during the
>> open data research symposium.
>>
>> In addition, we are developing a roadmap to the census, we hope to share
>> it with you all as soon as possible.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mor
>>
>> On 2 May 2015 at 04:41, Stephen Gates <stephen.gates at me.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mor,
>>> thank you for the update. The problem has been quite persistent and a
>>> little embarrassing when trying to promote the census across Australia.
>>> I'll stop logging issues on GitHub knowing that the system administrators
>>> are being notified behind the scenes. I look forward to a sustainable
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> It would being interesting to have a roadmap for the global, regional
>>> and local open data census platform. I am looking to other open data
>>> quality initiatives such as Open Data Certificates and the Open Data
>>> Monitor. I'd be interest to hear your view on how the census is positioned
>>> along side those complementary / competing tools. Has a roadmap been
>>> developed and can it be shared?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Stephen Gates
>>> Australia's Regional Open Data Census
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, 2 May 2015 01:15:45 UTC+10, Mor Rubinstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Census and Index users and admins,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the last couple of months we have been experiencing some faults with
>>>> our local open data census instances and the Global open data index and we
>>>> wanted to give you a bit of background on what causes the problems and the
>>>> way forward.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The errors are due to the fact that The Census codebase is built on top
>>>> of Google Spreadsheets, which serves as the database for all submissions
>>>> and places. Google Spreadsheets makes it easy to get the Census up and
>>>> running, and also provides easy access for content editing. However, over
>>>> time, and as the census has grown, we have increasingly experienced
>>>> problems with the way we connect to Google Spreadsheets, leading to errors
>>>> that require manual intervention. We are dealing with those during European
>>>> and Indian office hours.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you do experience a fault on one of the Census instance - please
>>>> know that we are getting notifications from Google about this as it happens
>>>> and we are dealing with them asap. There is no need to notify us
>>>> separately. We thank you for your cooperation and patience so far.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are various technical solutions to address the connectivity
>>>> issues, and we are now discussing how and when we will make such changes.
>>>> Hopefully we can resolve this issue once and for all soon. If you want to
>>>> help us with the back-end of the census or if you have any more questions,
>>>> please let us know either on-list or by emailing index at okfn.org.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mor, on behalf of the Open Knowledge team
>>>>
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