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John Bywater | 1 Feb 12:16
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KForge Club: Call for Participation (Feb 2010)

Dear All,

KFORGE CLUB: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

An invitation to join KForge Club.

JOIN HERE
You can join KForge Club here:
http://appropriatesoftware.net/kforgeclub/JoinHere.html

Joining KForge Club is free of charge. KForge Club members are simply
involved in a safe, transparent, and regular process of sharing common
costs. Joining implies no commitment whatsoever (you can say 'No' later).

Members are invited to submit new proposals, and to comment on proposals
submitted by others. A prospectus of such proposals is published, and
shares of the costs are discussed with those showing interest. A call
for agreement is made. Proposals that achieve consensus are actioned,
and reported upon at regular intervals.

BACKGROUND
KForge is a stable, open-source, enterprise application for project
hosting. KForge provisions project services on-demand, and controls
access with a robust, role-based, single sign-on access controller.
Project services include:

* Version control systems (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Subversion)
* Project framework with mechanisms to plan and track work (e.g. Trac)
* Wikis and mailing lists (e.g. MoinMoin, Mailman)
* Content management systems and blogs (e.g. Joomla, Wordpress)
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Jonathan Gray | 2 Feb 13:32

Community.okfn.org

Dear all,

As you know the Open Knowledge Foundation is a community-driven
organisation. For a while we've been thinking about how we can
re-design the OKF site to better reflect this community [1]. In
particular we would like to make it easier for people to see who is
out there, what they are interested in, what they are working on, and
so on.

To this end we've been started working on community.okfn.org:

  http://community.okfn.org/

This currently uses Drupal + CiviCRM. Any thoughts, suggestions or
help would be most welcome!

[1] http://wiki.okfn.org/Vision and http://wiki.okfn.org/WebsiteRedesign/

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James Casbon | 2 Feb 16:50
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comparison of project hosting including knowledgeforge

Here is Andrew Dalke's take on project hosting:
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2010/01/30/project_hosting_options.html

You will notice that knowledgeforge makes it to the last 2, but 'I
looked at KnowledgeForge and while it seems to fit my requirements,
there aren't many people using it, although others may be using the
underlying KForge application to host their own system. My concern is
that the rough edges wouldn't have been worn down by other users.'

James
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Mr. Puneet Kishor | 2 Feb 17:04

Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

In the spirit of http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/, the following is on where *will* our money go, the US edition.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html



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John Bywater | 2 Feb 17:16
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Re: comparison of project hosting including knowledgeforge

James Casbon wrote:
> Here is Andrew Dalke's take on project hosting:
> http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2010/01/30/project_hosting_options.html
> 
> You will notice that knowledgeforge makes it to the last 2, but 'I

Exciting!

> looked at KnowledgeForge and while it seems to fit my requirements,
> there aren't many people using it, although others may be using the
> underlying KForge application to host their own system. My concern is
> that the rough edges wouldn't have been worn down by other users.'

They're getting worn down. :-)

http://knowledgeforge.net/kforge/trac/timeline
http://knowledgeforge.net/domainmodel/trac/timeline

J.

> 
> James
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Louise Egan | 2 Feb 17:18
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Jorum Update news

***Apologies for cross posting***

 

Colleagues,

 

The January edition of the Jorum Update newsletter is now available at the Jorum website.

 

The first edition of 2010 focuses on the release of JorumOpen, which is now available for search and deposit.  This growing collection of open educational resources has received some very positive feedback, and we are encouraging further deposit by utilising the new Jorum deposit chooser.  

 

Read more at:

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/newsletter.html

 

Don’t forget you can also keep up to date with the Jorum team through Twitter:  http://twitter.com/JorumTeam.

 

Regards

 

 

Louise Egan

Communications Officer - Jorum Service

Mimas, 5th floor RoscoeBuilding

The University of Manchester

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9PL

 

Tel: 0161 275 6803
Email: louise.egan-m7QheJJv02N4oUbgFh0ZNQ@public.gmane.org

Web: http://www.jorum.ac.uk
JorumCommunityBay: http://community.jorum.ac.uk

 

Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials, created by the community for the community.

You can also have your say and find out more about all aspects of sharing at the JorumCommunityBay: http://community.jorum.ac.uk

 

To receive updates from the Jorum team, please join http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JORUM-UPDATE or follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/JorumTeam

 

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Philippe Aigrain | 3 Feb 11:18
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Coverage in France for OKFN study on Open Data in France

http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/etat-des-lieux-de-l-opendata-
en-69266

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Jonathan Gray | 3 Feb 11:45

Fwd: FOSS4G 2010 Call for Abstract

Would be great to put in something to this on CKAN for geospatial
data! Anyone interested in co-drafting/attending?

J.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

LinkedIn Groups

Group: Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Subject: FOSS4G 2010 Call for Abstract

We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstract for the FOSS4G (Free
and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2010 conference, being held
September 6-9, in beautiful Barcelona, Spain.
Held annually, FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source
geospatial community, providing a full-immersion experience in
established and leading edge geospatial technologies for developers,
users, and people new to open source geospatial.

http://2010.foss4g.org

FOSS4G 2010 presentations are 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question
and answer sessions at the end. Presentations cover the use or
development of open source geospatial software. Anyone can can submit
a presentation proposal and take part in the conference as a
presenter.

Read full information at: http://www.osgeo.org/foss4g/2010/call_for_abstracts
Posted By Tyler Mitchell

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Rufus Pollock | 3 Feb 13:21
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Re: comparison of project hosting including knowledgeforge

I think it would definitely be worth trying to contact Andrew Dalke
directly and talk to him more.

One thing to emphasize is that unlike many of the other products
considered, a lot of effort goes into making KForge good software in
its own right (rather than being heavily tied to the one specific
install such as knowledgeforge.net). In particular its easy to install
KForge yourself so that you don't have to use our particular KForge
service (http://knowledgeforge.net). As such the number of users
Knowledgeforge.net is likely to be lower because people can run their
own autonomous instance!

I also think it would be worth trying to start getting better stats on
exactly how many deployed instances are out there :)

Regards,

Rufus

On 2 February 2010 16:16, John Bywater
<john.bywater@...> wrote:
> James Casbon wrote:
>>
>> Here is Andrew Dalke's take on project hosting:
>>
>> http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2010/01/30/project_hosting_options.html
>>
>> You will notice that knowledgeforge makes it to the last 2, but 'I
>
> Exciting!
>
>> looked at KnowledgeForge and while it seems to fit my requirements,
>> there aren't many people using it, although others may be using the
>> underlying KForge application to host their own system. My concern is
>> that the rough edges wouldn't have been worn down by other users.'
>
> They're getting worn down. :-)
>
> http://knowledgeforge.net/kforge/trac/timeline
> http://knowledgeforge.net/domainmodel/trac/timeline
>
> J.
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Rufus Pollock | 3 Feb 14:13
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Re: Community.okfn.org

To follow this up. Major problems as identified in those vision discussions:

It is unclear to the average observer (and often even to those more
involved with our work!):

  A) What we're up to
  B) Who's doing it
  C) How you get involved
  D) [maybe not so important] What the decision making structure is

community.okfn.org is an attempt to address this by:

  1. Integrate project and working group info in a single place
  2. Centralized "recent changes" to give an overview of what we are up to
  3. Create a dedicated space for OKFN "members" and others involved
in what we're doing so the community becomes visible. (This will also
be the concrete implementation of the governance structure discussed
last November [1])

We want both:

  * Input on the technology (wordpress versus drupal versus plone versus ...)
  * How to do 1+2+3 with given technology (e.g. anyone out there
familiar with drupal profile pages?)
  * What else we should be doing (see
http://wiki.okfn.org/WebsiteRedesign for current discussion)

Regards,

Rufus

[1]: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2009-November/006976.html

On 2 February 2010 12:32, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray <at> okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As you know the Open Knowledge Foundation is a community-driven
> organisation. For a while we've been thinking about how we can
> re-design the OKF site to better reflect this community [1]. In
> particular we would like to make it easier for people to see who is
> out there, what they are interested in, what they are working on, and
> so on.
>
> To this end we've been started working on community.okfn.org:
>
>  http://community.okfn.org/
>
> This currently uses Drupal + CiviCRM. Any thoughts, suggestions or
> help would be most welcome!
>
> [1] http://wiki.okfn.org/Vision and http://wiki.okfn.org/WebsiteRedesign/
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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