Open Knowledge Cambridge
Details
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Meetings
2008-06-06
Friday 6th June 2008, 1830-2030, Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2008-02-13
Wednesday 13th February 2008, 1900-2100, Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Rufus Pollock, Emmanuel College and the Open Knowledge Foundation - on discovering and installing open knowledge packages using CKAN.
Francis Irving of PublicWhip.org and mySociety - on freeing Government data, and travel-time maps.
- Jim Downing of the Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics - on Open Source and Open Access in Chemistry.
2006-10-05
- met in CB2 cambridge
- present
- Martin Brett
- Matthew Brett
- discussed:
- Martin Brett's efforts to produce open version of Ivo of Charters
- multiple texts (140 manuscripts all slightly different), how does one produce a consolidated version, how does one compare texts etc
- set up a knowledgeforge project for this called ivo
- involved a lengthy and fascinating discussion of Gratian
see also this thread <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2006-May/000065.html>
- demoed newsclipping service to Francis and Martin and Francis mentioned that Ben Campbell is working on something similar -- Francis to put the in touch (Media Standards Trust)
- annotation systems:
marginalia: http://www.geof.net
gpl v3 comments system: http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/source/stet-latest.tar.bz2 (v. undocumented)
- todo: add julian todd to okfn-discuss and start thread on:
- offsets into documents (fragments)
- user interfaces for text document systems (marginalia etc)
- inline annotation
- francis: mailman is really bad (compare it to google groups)
looked at osprey: http://osprey.ibiblio.org/
- discussed using xapian with structured files (e.g. xml). Francis is planning to investigate omega (an app built on top of xapian)
- Martin Brett's efforts to produce open version of Ivo of Charters
2006-09-07
- met in CB2 cambridge
- present
- discussed:
Peter's has started a blog: http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/
In particular we discussed his post on Open Access: http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=15
- Peter's promises to post about tonight's meeting so keep your rss feed tuned
theyworkforyou' new web api: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/
- The statute law database (again!)
The open economics software is now live on the development server: http://econ.dev.okfn.org/store/
2006-08-03
- met in CB2 cambridge
- present
- Discussed
- versioning data
- OPSI and statute law database
2006-07-06
- met in CB2 cambridge
- present
- discussed:
- chemistry data (might be a collaborative project with wikipedia)
- structured vs. unstructured data
- publicwhip
- food cooperatives and community currencies
- publicdomainworks.net
2006-05-25
- Thursday, 25th of may
- CB2, cambridge 1700
2006-04-27
- met in CB2 cambridge
- present
2006-03-27
- met in CB2 cambridge
2005-11-28
- Due to cancellations at last minute only people present were:
- John Bywater
- Rufus Pollock
- Martin Keegan
2005-10-24
Present:
- Martin Keegan
- Michael Ott
- Rufus Pollock
- Pete Clay
- Geoffrey
- Jeremy
- Francis Irving (later)
Summary:
Main discussion was about potential areas that we could productively work in be it individually or in a more coordinated fashion. Ideas were:
- Wifi
- Contacting schools
- Survey of policy and usage
- Talking in the school
- Simple linux deployment
- General survey re. Open Standards
- Web service of some kind
- e.g. programmable wiki
- Public Domain Burn: work on FC-UK project
- Policy Work
- paper on database directive
- paper on broadcast treaty
- Write to local MPs about term extension
Tentatively decided on contacting schools item.
2005-09-18
Present:
- John Bywater
- Bill Thompson
- Jeremy
- Pete Clay
- Francis (later)
- Michael Ott
Summary:
General discussion about political situation on IP and what activities we could engage in.
- Particular focus on 'linux in schools' idea.
- Discussed possibility of using Ndiyo equipment.