As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing quarterly reviews of what I and the Open Knowledge Foundation have been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 3 months.
Highlights
- Substantial new project support from several funders including support for Science working group and Economics working group
- Our CKAN Data Management System selected in 2 major new data portal initatives
- Continuing advance of projects across the board with several projects reaching key milestones (v1.0 or beta release, adoption by third parties)
- Rapid expansion of chapters and local groups — e.g. London Meetup now has more than 100 participants, new chapters in Belgium and Switzerland are nearly finalized
- Completion of major upgrade of core web-presence with new branding and theme used on http://okfn.org/ and across our network of sites (now numbering more than 40)
- Announcement of School of Data which drew huge attention from the community. This is will be a joint Open Knowledge Foundation / P2PU project.
- Major strengthening of organizational capacity with new staff
Projects
Major new project support including:
- Major breakthrough with achievement of simple data upload and management process – result of more than 9 months of work
- OpenSpending now contains more than 30 datasets with ~7 million spending items (up from 2 datasets and ~200k items a year ago, and under 10 datasets a 1.5m items just 4 months ago)
- Substantial expansion in set of collaborators and a variety of new funding opportunities
Other Projects
BibServer and BibSoup, our bibliogrpahic software and service, reached beta and have been receiving increasing attention
Public Domain Review celebrated its 1st Birthday. Some stats:
- The Review now has more than 800+ email subscribers, ~800 followers on Twitter
- 20k visitors with over 40k page views per month
- An increasing number of supporters making a monthly donation
Initiated a substantive collaboration on the PyBossa crowdsourcing platform with Shuttleworth Fellow Emeritus Francois Grey and his Citizen Cyberscience Centre
Annotator and AnnotateIt v1.0 Completed and Released
- Annotator is now seeing uptake from several third-party projects and developers
- Project components now have more than 100 followers on GitHub (up from ~20 in December)
Working groups have continued to develop well:
- New dedicated Working Group coordinator (Laura Newman)
- Panton Fellowships run under auspices of Science Working Group
- Funding of Economics Working Group
Rapid Chapter and local group development:
Additional items
Events and Meetings
Participated in numerous events and meetings including:
