# Project Pack Meeting: 28th November

## Participants

* Adam Green – Public Domain Review
* Friedrich Lindenberg – OpenSpending & Many many other projects
* Ira Bolychevsky – Product Owner – CKAN: I’m based in London, @shevski on Twitter and in the irc channels, flouxi on skype)
* James Harriman-Smith – Open Humanities – (& work in progress: )
* Jason Kitkat – Foundation Coordinator
* Laura James – Foundation Coordinator (still getting up to speed 🙂
* Laura Newman – Community Coordinator
* Lucy Chambers – Community Coordinator
* Rufus Pollock – BDFL
* Sam Leon – Community Coordinator
* Sebastian Nordhoff – Open Linguistics
* Tim Davies – Open Development
* Tom Rees – Code Poet (Community Dashboard, CKAN, labs.okfn.org, okfn.org redesign)

## Apologies

* Daniel Dietrich – Chapter Lead – Germany
* Hauke Gierow – Community Coordinator – Germany
* Jenny Molloy – Open Science Working Group
* Jonathan Gray – Community Coordinator (travelling)
* Kat Braybrooke – Community Coordinator
* Mark MacGillivray – Open Biblio
* Peter Murray-Rust – Open Science Working Group / Open Biblio
* Primavera de Filippi – Public Domain Calculators / Open Metadata Handbook
* Stefano Costa – Open Archaeology
* Velichka Dimitrova – Open Economics (I have to finish several things today, sorry!!)

## Agenda

* Introductions – not everyone knows who each other is yet!
* 2 minute Updates
* What your working group / project is currently working on
* Any problems you are encountering that OKF central / the wisdom of the projects pack could help with?

* Questions to address:
* How often should we all catch up? Fortnightly?
* What is the best way to keep each other updated? Project / Working Group bulletin?

* Open Data Day
* RHoK – IATI data on Open Data Day
* AOB
* Questions to address:
* How often should we all catch up? Fortnightly?
* What is the best way to keep each other updated? Project / Working Group bulletin?

## Updates:

### James Harriman-Smith
* Setting up Open Humanities website with Sam Leon
* Continuing discussions about incorporating new annotations from another system into Open Shakespeare
* Organised first Open Humanities Skype call for 5pm Wednesday 14th December.

### Tim Davies
* Supporting open-development working group on behalf of AidInfo.org
* Group has been very focussed on aid data in run up to High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, but hoping to look broader
* Held satelite workshop at recent Open Data Camp – and discussions emerging around seeking funding for part-time co-ordinator to engage with NGOs, Govs and Communities around open development data – being led by Claudia Schwegmann

### Laura James
* new Foundation Coordinator, based in Cambridge
* 20% time now, much more in the new year
* still getting up to speed 🙂
* focussing just on fundraising and bids in Nov/Dec (and getting up to speed 😉

### Sebastian Nordhoff
* continuing organziation workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society
* Linguistic LOD Drive until December 15 to form a linguistics LOD cloud
* several publications by WG members in scientific outlets to promote LOD

### Irina Bolychevsky
* CKAN Product owner since July, project managing data.gov.uk & helping out community & client management
* CKAN is the open source open data platform provider, powering data.gov.uk, openspending, and soon the world. Info/client site: http://ckan.org/. Community site for anyone to add open data to:
* 3 from the CKAN team will be at the Barbican for Open Data Day on Sat 3rd: **Get Involved**
* Going to the International Digital Curation Conference: next Wednesday, timesharing with Mark MacGillivray. Let me know if you know anyone there I should talk to.
* Currently hiring & interviewing UX/UI designers & front end folk. If you know anyone good, please let me know ASAP.

### Friedrich Lindenberg
* Hired new programmer in Germany
* UI Loading for OpenSpending, getting ready for Open Data Day
* Some data wrangling: EU FTS, CAP, Italy, UK25k -> New tooling in recon library, messytables.

### Adam Green
* Working with Sam Leon to try get our sign up numbers increasing – if anyone has any ideas then would be great to hear them! Also any general thoughts on the site and the work we are doing…

### Tom Rees
* OKFN Labs: We’re booting up an umbrella project to take all the smaller OKFN projects under its wing. So on the surface, the Foundation isn’t doing 54 things – it’s doing three or so (CKAN, OpenSpending, Labs…) and all our experiments are wrapped up in Labs. It’s an incubator and a place to start new experiments.
* Okfn.org redesign: Building a modern webdesign for the OKFN homepage & subsites. This has been on our TODO list for too long!
* Community Dashboard, CKAN… hacking on various projects

## Questions

* Questions to address:
* How often should we all catch up? Fortnightly?
* Weekly chat session, people can attend according to their need/availability.
* What is the best way to keep each other updated? Project / Working Group bulletin?
* The weekly etherpad will be sent out. Everyone can input updates, regardless of whether they can attend meeting. We’ll then send out a bulletin update.

* Open Data Day
* Taking place 3/12/11.
* If you want us to publicise your events, post them to okfn-discuss.
* RHoK – IATI data on Open Data Day

# Coord Team Meeting: 28th November

## Participants

* Jason Kitkat
* Kat Braybrooke
* Laura James
* Laura Newman
* Lucy Chambers
* Rufus Pollock
* Tom Rees

## Apologies

* Daniel Dietrich
* Hauke Gierow
* Jonathan Gray (travelling)

## Agenda

* Updates
* Questions to address
* AOB

* Sidekick Studios project proposition
* Offices in London
* Christmas Party – 14th December,

## Updates (paste your notebook link in here [name](link)):

* [Sam Leon](http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/11/28/weekly-update-sam-leon-3/)
* [Lucy Chambers](http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/11/28/week-ahead-lucy-chambers-23/)
* [Laura Newman](http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/11/28/week-ahead-laura-newman/)
* [Kat Braybrooke](http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/11/28/week-ahead-kat-braybrooke-14/)

## Questions

## AOB

## Notes

## Actions

* Newsletter
* Christmas Party
* Add alias @okfn email address