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John Bywater | 3 Aug 13:16
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Call for Participation in KForge Club

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN KFORGE CLUB

We are pleased to be able to invite you to participate in KForge Club.

JOIN THE CLUB
Please participate by joining the club at the service desk:
<http://appropriatesoftware.net/foundation/KForgeClub.html>

BACKGROUND
For the last 4 years the costs of developing KForge have been borne by
the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Appropriate Software Foundation.

In order to support the development of KForge into the future we are now
creating a software club as a mechanism for sharing the costs of
development and guiding that process.  We should emphasize that KForge
will, of course, remain open-source software.

What is KForge?

KForge is an open-source (GPL) Python-based system for software and
knowledge project hosting.  It re-uses many existing best-of-breed tools
such as a versioned storage (subversion, hg), a tracker (trac), a wiki
(trac or moinmoin) and others (mailman, joomla, etc.) by adapting them
as services within the system's own facilities (projects, members,
roles, etc).  KForge also provides a complete web interface for
administration of project members and services, as well a
fully-developed plugin system so that new kinds of services can be
easily added.

Why KForge Club?
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Jonathan Gray | 5 Aug 13:58

Re: tracking members, subscriptions, volunteers and CiviCRM

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:33 PM, James Casbon<casbon@...> wrote:
> 2009/7/17 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@...>:
>> Just to pick up this thread - I wonder whether CiviCRM could be used
>> to track project and working group membership? At a glance it looks
>> like the 'groups' feature could do this.
>>
>> It would be a nice way of having a pubilc profile for all of those
>> interested in the OKF - showing which kinds of projects/areas they are
>> interested in. Can't figure out from the demo the extent to which
>> users can view other users (publicly viewable) details? Does anyone
>> know?
>
> I think this is set up via profiles feature which allows you choose a
> small subset of the data to be publicly accessible.  Combined with the
> groups and custom data, that should do it:
> http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Profiles+Admin
>
> I really need to get an install up and going so we can test drive it.

This would be really interesting. I think having 'profile pages' for
those involved in the OKF could be a great way of helping to make it
more visible who is doing what, who is interested in what, and so on!

Does anyone know of any other software packages that might be good at
doing this? It would be nice to have something relatively lightweight.

Perhaps we could even start doing this on the wiki. What do people think?

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Jonathan Gray | 5 Aug 22:09

Open data and the semantic web workshop, London, 13th November 2009

Hi all,

Just in case you haven't seen this, there will be an informal workshop
on open data and the semantic web in London this autumn:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2009/08/05/open-data-and-the-semantic-web-workshop-london-13th-november-2009/

We'd be grateful if anyone interested in attending could put their
name on the wiki page so we have an idea of numbers - as space is
limited!

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org
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Jonathan Gray | 6 Aug 11:18

CFP for papers on FLOSS, open science, open knowledge

Thought some of you might be interested to see that there is a CFP in
Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) for
empirical research on Free/Libre Open Source Software. This includes:
"FLOSS, Open Science and Open Knowledge":

  http://edodds.blogs.com/conmergence/2009/08/journal-of-the-association-for-information-systems-jais-call-for-papers-empirical-research-on-freeli.html
  http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/jais_floss_callforpapers.pdf
  http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/callforpapers.html

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
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Georgi Kobilarov | 7 Aug 12:57
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[Event] Linked Data Meetup London, September 9th

Hi all,

We felt that it's time again to bring the Linked Data community together to
an event with talks, demos, discussions and free beer.

The Meetup will take place in London on September 9th, please see
http://www.meetup.com/Web-Of-Data/calendar/11056905/ for more details.

This meetup is for people who are interested in learning about Linked Data
on the Web, people working on making data available on the web, people
building infrastructure and applications for the Web of Data, and people who
are interested in how to apply Linked Data technologies within their
enterprises.

During the day there will be a broad range of talks. We currently have talks
from the BBC, DBpedia, Garlik, HP Labs, Talis, and many more on the
programme, and we are looking for more people interested in giving a talk or
demonstration. If you're interested, please send us an email.

Bar opens at 6pm (free bar) and Tom Heath 'Linked Data the story so far'
plus special guests. Food will be available (small cost).

The detailed programme for the day will be available soon.

We are putting our price money for best semweb-in-use paper at ESWC2009
behind the bar, and since it probably wont be enough to buy all of you free
beer, our friends at Talis were so kind to agree to sponsor the day and are
putting more money behind the bar!

Very looking forward to seeing you all in London,
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James Casbon | 9 Aug 15:20
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CKAN and VDM

Hi Rufus,

I'm trying to understand VDM on the way to understanding CKAN.
 * Are there any docs that explain what is going on in general terms?
 * I see you're using sqlalchemy migrate
(http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009/07/27/sqlalchemy-migrate-with-pylons/)
 - am I right in thinking that migrate handles schema migrations,
while vdm handles object versioning?
 * Have you seen this: http://code.google.com/p/django-rcsfield/

Cheers,
James
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Rufus Pollock | 10 Aug 18:57
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Re: CKAN and VDM

Not feeling very well so this will be brief ...

2009/8/9 James Casbon <casbon <at> gmail.com>:
> Hi Rufus,
>
> I'm trying to understand VDM on the way to understanding CKAN.
>  * Are there any docs that explain what is going on in general terms?

There's the main vdm package docstring:

<http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/vdm/file/tip/vdm/__init__.py>

As that says at the top:

<quote>
Versioned Domain Model (vdm) is a package which allows you to 'version' your
domain model in the same way that source code version control systems such as
subversion allow you version your code. In particular, versioned domain model
versions a complete model and not just individual domain objects (for more on
this distinction see below).
<quote>

Any questions remaining after perusing that (and I'm sure there will
be :) !) let me know.

>  * I see you're using sqlalchemy migrate
> (http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009/07/27/sqlalchemy-migrate-with-pylons/)

We haven't actually transitioned to migrate yet though it is one of
our top tickets.
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Jonathan Gray | 11 Aug 18:38

IRC meeting tonight (2009-08-11) from 1800 BST (1700 GMT) on #okfn at irc.oftc.net

Hi all,

For anyone who's online in the next little while, Rufus, James Casbon,
Martin Keegan and I are going to be on the on #okfn IRC channel at
irc.oftc.net at 1800 BST (1900 CEST).

You can connect using a web browser at: http://ur1.ca/4fh

If anyone's got anything they'd like to discuss, propose or work on,
please drop in!

As I think Rufus mentioned, we're going to start meeting regularly on
Tuesday evenings. Details are on the Google Calendar at:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/Events

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
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Jonathan Gray | 11 Aug 20:32

OKCon 2010 date + CFP?

Hi all,

We've recently been doing some initial planning for OKCon 2010. We're
currently thinking about a date. We usually have OKCon towards the end
of March - but how would people feel about moving it into April?

Also, we've already got a research CFP (thanks to Sören Auer!) at:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/okcon/2010/cfp

We wondered whether we should circulate our general CFP separately, or
whether we can circulate them both on one announce, but perhaps with
different sections/URLs? Our feeling is it would be best to do this as
a single announce.

Finally if anyone else would like to be on the OKCon 2010 organising
committee, please don't hesitate to let us know!

  http://wiki.okfn.org/okcon/2010

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org
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John Bywater | 17 Aug 19:45
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KForge Club: First Call for Proposals

The first Call for Proposals of KForge Club is now open.

You are invited to submit proposals for the shared development of
open-source software and services for project hosting.

<http://appropriatesoftware.net/kforgeclub/Proposals.html>

You are also invited to reply to the submissions by leaving comments.

This call closes on Friday, 11 September 2009 - in time for publication
of the club's first prospectus on Monday, 14 September 2009.

With kind regards from the club hosts,

John and Rufus
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