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

Wed May 27 02:30:57 UTC 2015

Hi All,

Tim and I will present at the research symposium at the Shaw Centre at 9.30
- more details here -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zvtp2wF9kqrvzXpoUIgq1aYLUcbESJ0WWpShobrXr_A/pubhtml?gid=1456665193&single=true

I will be happy to see other at 5 and hear feedback about the Index.

See you all soon,
Mor

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Jury Konga <jkonga at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Hi Mor,
>
>
>
> It appears only  Matthew and I have signed up to meet with you on Wed –
> encourage others with an interest to sign up on the Doodle poll.
>
>
>
> I’ve been trying to find when/where you and Tim are presenting.  Please
> advise.  Thx and look forward to chatting.
>
>
>
> Cheers  Jury Konga
>
> Open Knowledge Canada
>
>
>
> *From:* local-open-data-census at googlegroups.com [mailto:
> local-open-data-census at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Mor Rubinstein
> *Sent:* May-15-15 9:45 AM
> *To:* Matthew McNaughton
> *Cc:* open-data-census at lists.okfn.org; Open Data Census; Stephen Gates;
> index at okfn.org; local-open-data-census at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: Open Data Census and Global Open Data Index technical
> update
>
>
>
> 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
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> 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
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>
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> 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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