For a while we've been speaking about creating more official 'editor' roles at CKAN. (Particularly in discussions with Cameron Neylon + Peter Murray-Rust.)
A few general suggestions: * list of most recently added/edited pages on front page * ckan.net/user/[username] pages - allowing user to create a profile page detailing interests and linking to external sites * better browsing support, e.g. link to list of 'curated' tags, with information on subject area and active editors * featured packages on front page * allow collections of packages * ckan on identica - with feed of new packages? I've created a ticket for this here: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/53 J. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Rufus Pollock<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/11 Michael Holloway <[email protected]>: >> Great news, Rufus, well done you and your collaborators. > > Thanks! And this is a good moment to solicit some input on CKAN in two areas: > > 1. We'd love to have some volunteers to act as "official" > maintainers/editors for specific subject areas in CKAN. > > Being an editor/maintainer wouldn't take much time (not more than an > hour or two a month) and would involve adding and updating the CKAN > "packages" for a particular subject area, say, geodata > (<http://www.ckan.net/tag/read/geodata>), or uk government material > (<http://www.ckan.net/tag/read/workshop-20081101>). > > I should also emphasize that it doesn't involve any great technical > know-how: all you need is an interest in digging around for datasets > or other collections of material in a given area (science, geodata, > business, culture etc). > > 2. What should we do next with CKAN, what additional features should we add? > > For example, we could improve package search, or work on connecting > CKAN with one or more repositories (be it the Open Data Grid, Talis CC > etc). > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
