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

Fri May 15 13:45:17 UTC 2015

Just to be clear - this is meant for any of you who will be attending
Ottawa IODC between the 25-29 of May.

Hope to see you soon,
Mor
On May 15, 2015 4:42 PM, "Mor Rubinstein" <mor.rubinstein at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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