Just to follow this up, here is something a bit like what I would hope for in the longer term with OKF incubator, at the University of Edinburgh...
"IDEA lab is a virtual laboratory that will facilitate prototyping of novel applications of state-of-art informatic technologies. IDEA lab will enable and support multidisciplinary "proof-of-principle prototyping" (POPP) projects that develop and use informatic tools and techniques to: (i) collect and manage data, (ii) discover and visualise structures and relationships; (iii) model, simulate and analyse processes, (iv) facilitate collaboration and create communities." [1] The idea is to build a developer community around the idea lab, and also there is a £300k fund to help catalyse development [2]. At the moment they are working on idea.ed.ac.uk in Drupal, but are also looking at Google Wave [3]. [1] http://idea-lab-edinburgh.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-is-idea-lab.html [2] http://idea-lab-edinburgh.blogspot.com/2009/09/cse-popp-fund-approved.html [3] http://idea-lab-edinburgh.blogspot.com/2009/10/project-development-and-proposal.html On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Rufus and I were recently talking about the OKF's project 'incubator' > and I suggested turning this into a project in its own right. > > There are so many interested ideas kicking around - that I think it > would be useful to have a project dedicated to documenting and > refining these! This could be anything from entirely new open > knowledge/data/content projects (like 'Where Does My Money Go?'), to > tools to 'scratch an itch' (e.g. scripts to convert MoinMoin syntax to > Markdown, scraping texts from Project Gutenberg and stripping out > header/footer to make them public domain,...). > > The incubator project could let people propose, vote and comment on > ideas. Mike Chelen recently suggested we could use IdeaTorrent (GPL) > for this: > > http://www.ideatorrent.org/ > > What do people think? Would anyone be interested in having a go at > setting up and tweaking an instance at incubator.okfn.org? > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://www.okfn.org > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
