[open-government] [ckan-discuss] New Open Government Platform code released

Wed Dec 7 15:13:27 UTC 2011

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> (Cc'ing CKAN discuss)
>
> Fantastic news Jeanne!
>
> Who is the main point of contact for this project? It would be great
> to introduce them to our CKAN team (see ckan.org), if they aren't
> already in touch with us!

I think Jonathan's point about getting the Open Government Platform
folks talking to the CKAN folks is incredibly important.

"CKAN is used by the UK, Norwegian and Dutch governments, local
government, and specialist data publishers. It has run ckan.net (now
thedatahub.org) since 2007, and powers more than 40 data hubs
globally." [1]

Jonathan, is there a list of know data hubs available somewhere? I
realize that the OGP work has been going on behind the scenes for a
big code drop like [2]. But I think it's important to characterize how
different that commit history is from CKAN's [3], and the value of
actually working in the open.

//Ed

[1] http://ckan.org/faq/
[2] https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform/commits/master/
1 commit on Nov 30, 2011
[3] https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commits/master which has commits
going back to Jan 18th, 2007