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Rufus Pollock | 1 May 20:47
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Re: distributed FS

Dear Luis,

Really great you should mention this as I too came across allmydata just 
a few weeks ago and even got it installed. I'd be really keen to start a 
mini free/open data/services grid of some kind. This has been something 
we've been thinking about more generally at the OKFN for quite some time 
[1][2] and just a few weeks ago when Evan Prodromou asked about storing 
distributed backups of vinisimo I noted the dearth of such facilities [3].

~rufus

[1]:<http://okfn.org/wiki/DataDistribution>
[2]:<http://okfn.org/wiki/ToolsWeNeed>
[3]:<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2008-April/000807.html>

On 01/05/08 05:37, Luis Villa wrote:
> http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe
> 
> Interesting; possibly relevant to this group. (I can see this
> replacing my Amazon S3 backups over the summer.)
> 
> Luis
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Mike Linksvayer | 2 May 01:07
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Re: distributed FS

FWIW the developer (or the one I know of) runs the p2p-hackers list.
I made a joke about his triangle at the beginning of our meeting.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@...> wrote:
> Dear Luis,
>
>  Really great you should mention this as I too came across allmydata just a
> few weeks ago and even got it installed. I'd be really keen to start a mini
> free/open data/services grid of some kind. This has been something we've
> been thinking about more generally at the OKFN for quite some time [1][2]
> and just a few weeks ago when Evan Prodromou asked about storing distributed
> backups of vinisimo I noted the dearth of such facilities [3].
>
>  ~rufus
>
>  [1]:<http://okfn.org/wiki/DataDistribution>
>  [2]:<http://okfn.org/wiki/ToolsWeNeed>
>  [3]:<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2008-April/000807.html>
>
>
>
>  On 01/05/08 05:37, Luis Villa wrote:
>
> > http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe
> >
> > Interesting; possibly relevant to this group. (I can see this
> > replacing my Amazon S3 backups over the summer.)
> >
> > Luis
> >
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Jonathan Gray | 2 May 17:10

Visualisation for corpwatch

Ian Elwood from Corpwatch, who were recently involved in the Netsquared 
challenge [1], has asked me whether I knew anyone who might be 
interested in helping them with their visualisatation:

>> Any chance you would be interested, or know someone interested, in
>> working more closely with me to get a visualization live on the web?  I
>> can currently only offer the bribe of a one day pass to the NetSquared
>> Mashup Challenge conference at Cisco, in May...

Anyone who might be interested, or might know someone who'd be interested, please get in touch.

Warm regards,

Jonathan

[1] See:
 http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/corpwatch-government-data-corporations
 http://www.netsquared.org/blog/ian-elwood/technical-specifications-corpwatch-mashup
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Schuyler Erle | 3 May 02:17
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8 Principles of Open Government Data

Probably you all have seen this before, but for the open geodata
campaigners out there, here's a fairly nice and succinct set of core
principles articulated around a definition of "open government data",
courtesy of the EveryBlock blog:

http://resource.org/8_principles.html

SDE
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Schuyler Erle | 5 May 20:40
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Re: distributed FS

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:47 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> This has been something we've been thinking about more generally at the OKFN for quite some time 
> [1][2] and just a few weeks ago when Evan Prodromou asked about storing 
> distributed backups of vinisimo I noted the dearth of such facilities [3].
> [2]:<http://okfn.org/wiki/ToolsWeNeed>

Apropos of this last link, under "Rendering of geo locations using
**open data**": if you go to OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org/)
and click on the new "Export" tab, you can generate a smidge of HTML for
importing an OSM map into an iframe on any web page using OpenLayers.
I've updated the wiki page to reflect this.

SDE
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Francis Irving | 6 May 11:33
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413 Request Entity Too Large

Hiya!

I'm getting this error, when doing a "svn update" in a large
directory.

svn: REPORT request failed on '/ukparse/svn/!svn/vcc/default' 
svn: REPORT of '/ukparse/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 413 Request Entity Too
Large (https://project.knowledgeforge.net) 

Not sure, but https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39154
implies it might be an Apache config error on KnowledgeForge. Do you
have your SSLVerifyClient line in the wrong place?

Any other ideas?

Francis
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Francis Irving | 6 May 12:04
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Re: 413 Request Entity Too Large

Sorry, wrong list.

Please ignore!

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:33:07AM +0100, Francis Irving wrote:
> Hiya!
> 
> I'm getting this error, when doing a "svn update" in a large
> directory.
> 
> svn: REPORT request failed on '/ukparse/svn/!svn/vcc/default' 
> svn: REPORT of '/ukparse/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 413 Request Entity Too
> Large (https://project.knowledgeforge.net) 
> 
> Not sure, but https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39154
> implies it might be an Apache config error on KnowledgeForge. Do you
> have your SSLVerifyClient line in the wrong place?
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Francis
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Rufus Pollock | 8 May 09:44
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Re: 8 Principles of Open Government Data

On 03/05/08 01:17, Schuyler Erle wrote:
> Probably you all have seen this before, but for the open geodata
> campaigners out there, here's a fairly nice and succinct set of core
> principles articulated around a definition of "open government data",
> courtesy of the EveryBlock blog:
> 
> http://resource.org/8_principles.html

Much appreciate the heads-up on this Schuyler. As you surmise we did 
pick up on this when it first came out:

<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2007-December/000673.html>

I think Jonathan Gray is on their mailing list but I don't know how 
successful we were in getting in contact, particularly to chat about the 
potential inter-relation of these 8 Principles and the Open Knowledge 
Definition. Any assistance in that direction would be most welcome in fact.

~rufus
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Jonathan Gray | 8 May 21:46

Open Hardware

Hi all,

A friend and I have long been interested in the idea of 'open hardware'. 
I wondered whether anyone on the list knew about any legal work in this 
area. Apart from using open licenses for copyrightable aspects of a 
design, blueprint, procedure (text, images etc.) - what other legal 
issues are there?

I've started adding relevant links at:

   http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenHardware

Do people think that the OKF could have a role to play in this area? 
E.g. in supporting an 'open hardware definition' - or similar?

I'm going to start contacting relevant groups and mailing lists over the 
next few weeks - as soon as I get time!

Warm regards,

Jonathan
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jo | 8 May 22:49
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Re: Open Hardware

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:46:08PM -0700, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>    http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenHardware

I added a couple of links to work coming from Free Networks
communities in this area. Most of it's covered by the wikipedia
resources you have there. The RONJA project is a classic reference
point, its creator talked on the WSFII.London "Open Hardware" track.
http://publication.nodel.org/node/116/print in partic. reads as 
"notes towards an open hardware definition"

Another reference point would be the "maker" scene as hyped by
O'Reilly, but that seems more focused on adapting and combining
"proprietary" hardware projects.  

> Do people think that the OKF could have a role to play in this area? 
> E.g. in supporting an 'open hardware definition' - or similar?
> I'm going to start contacting relevant groups and mailing lists 

I think that if there's work on, or movement towards, such an effort
in the communities you have contact with, OKF could usefully promote
that, host or link to drafts from opendefinition.org, etc.

HOWEVER. I want to ask what these things are useful for, and probably
caution against asking for too much definition, especially in a
"legal" context. Is an Open Hardware Definition envisaged to be
defensive, in the sense of "keeping open libre"? Defensive against
people who may be "passing off" restricted or encumbered projects
as "open" for marketing reasons with no intention of engaging in an
open process?
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