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Changeset [1510:1e9b906a2f6d]: do not look for username in rendered html

2010-09-02T14:34:05+00:00

do not look for username in rendered html

Ticket #556 (Method on API controller to accept invalid package create form submission) closed

2010-09-02T14:10:05+00:00

fixed

Ticket #554 (Functional test for submitting invalid "package create form" response to ...) closed

2010-09-02T14:06:33+00:00

fixed

Ticket #552 (Method on API controller to accept valid package create form submission) closed

2010-09-02T14:00:28+00:00

fixed

Ticket #553 (Functional test for submitting valid "package create form" response to the ...) closed

2010-09-02T13:24:11+00:00

fixed

OKFN F2F tomorrow at I-Semantics

2010-09-01T22:21:21+00:00

Hi all,

some OKFNers (such as e.g. Paola, Jordan and me) are currently at 
I-Semantics 2010 in Graz [1]. We plan to have an informal meeting 
tomorrow during the conference dinner by occupying a OKFN table ;-) 
Everybody interested in OKFN's work and present tomorrow is invited to join.

Cheers,

Sören

[1] http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/

Changeset [1509:12e1d28c4fc0]: [templates/layout][s]: use site_title attribute in main site title section ...

2010-09-01T20:33:13+00:00

[templates/layout][s]: use site_title attribute in main site title section and move site_logo css into ckan.master.css.

Changeset [1508:c510d99cf35a]: Added 'get package create form' operation to Form API. Also, an ...

2010-09-01T15:28:11+00:00

Added 'get package create form' operation to Form API. Also, an uncontentious merge (forgot to commit before making changes).

Ticket #248 (Community map contacts script) closed

2010-09-01T15:19:24+00:00

wontfix:

We've given up on drupal and civirm for the time being.

Ticket #247 (Check civi settings) closed

2010-09-01T15:19:19+00:00

wontfix:

We've given up on drupal and civirm for the time being.

Ticket #546 (Get the package create form from the API) closed

2010-09-01T15:19:01+00:00

Ticket #555 (Documentation for submitting package create form submission to API) closed

2010-09-01T15:18:33+00:00

fixed

Ticket #551 (Documentation for getting package create form from API) closed

2010-09-01T15:18:22+00:00

fixed

Ticket #184 (New theme for okfn.org) closed

2010-09-01T15:17:56+00:00

fixed:

Finished as of end of July/mid-August 2010. See http://bitbucket.org/okfn/wp-theme-okfn

Ticket #549 (Method on API controller to return package create form) closed

2010-09-01T15:12:25+00:00

fixed

Ticket #550 (Routing configuration for package create form API resource) closed

2010-09-01T14:37:20+00:00

fixed

Ticket #548 (Functional test for getting package create form from the API) closed

2010-09-01T14:25:41+00:00

fixed

Changeset [1507:1d7484249dff]: Adding restructured restructured text API docs.

2010-09-01T14:04:39+00:00

Adding restructured restructured text API docs.

Changeset [1506:22407dc32293]: Adding restructured restructured text API docs.

2010-09-01T14:00:16+00:00

Adding restructured restructured text API docs.

Changeset [1505:cccc119ba946]: Adding restructured restructured text API docs.

2010-09-01T13:56:45+00:00

Adding restructured restructured text API docs.

Fwd: [okfn-coord] okfn at face to face in Graz

2010-09-01T13:18:07+00:00

I thought i should bump this to the OKF discuss list - Jordan and Paola 
are both at (the first?) open government data workshop in Graz, Austria 
at the moment. Jonny pointed me at the Austrian CKAN http://at.ckan.net

Anyone else here, who is also there?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [okfn-coord] okfn at face to face in Graz
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:55:50 +0000
From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>
Reply-To: paoladimaio10-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg< at >public.gmane.org, List for OKF projects committee
<okfn-coord-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org>
To: List for OKF projects committee <okfn-coord-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org>
CC: Scotland open knowledge list <ok-scotland-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org>

I have just realised that Jordan is here, I look forward to the linked
data  licensing session on Friday
Any progress with the open data licensing issue that we should know of
before the session?

Anyone else in Austra from the OKFn?

Ticket #556 (Method on API controller to accept invalid package create form submission) created

2010-09-01T11:27:28+00:00

Changeset [1503:aae9b6eba112]: [templates,api,addendum][s]: move brief info about API from ...

2010-09-01T11:26:45+00:00

[templates,api,addendum][s]: move brief info about API from rest/index.html template to about page and update api links in layout template.

Remove API link in main menu
Move to an api link in sidebar on the front page.

Ticket #555 (Documentation for submitting package create form submission to API) created

2010-09-01T11:24:50+00:00

Ticket #554 (Functional test for submitting invalid "package create form" response to ...) created

2010-09-01T11:23:46+00:00

Ticket #553 (Functional test for submitting valid "package create form" response to the ...) created

2010-09-01T11:23:23+00:00

Ticket #552 (Method on API controller to accept valid package create form submission) created

2010-09-01T11:20:09+00:00

Ticket #551 (Documentation for getting package create form from API) created

2010-09-01T11:17:25+00:00

Ticket #550 (Routing configuration for package create form API resource) created

2010-09-01T11:16:25+00:00

Ticket #549 (Method on API controller to return package create form) created

2010-09-01T11:15:48+00:00

Ticket #548 (Functional test for getting package create form from the API) created

2010-09-01T11:13:18+00:00

Ticket #547 (Submit package create form response to the API) created

2010-09-01T11:11:27+00:00

Ticket #546 (Get the package create form from the API) created

2010-09-01T11:10:14+00:00

Ticket #545 (The system shall support creating packages via the Form API) created

2010-09-01T11:08:30+00:00

Changeset [1502:4886c616af5f]: [api,routing][s]: revert ww changes in previous commit (cset:0ee22393a40e) ...

2010-09-01T10:40:17+00:00

[api,routing][s]: revert ww changes in previous commit (cset:0ee22393a40e) as they lead to some brokenness (though still need to fix brokennes of API link in layout that ww was trying to fix!).

The Power of Open Data

2010-09-01T10:11:16+00:00

The following guest post is from David Bollier, independent policy strategist, journalist, and author of Viral Spiral. It was originally posted at the On the Commons blog.

Science has always recognized the power of sharing in developing new knowledge. But in the search for treatments and cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, the sprawling bodies of highly diverse research data are not easily shared. Either they are considered proprietary resources for making money, or they are hidden in academic databases that others may not know about, often inaccessible because of incompatible software formats. No single researcher really has the resources or incentive to develop an overarching regime to enable cooperation and sharing. And so dozens of academics, nonprofits and pharmaceutical companies have continued their research in relative isolation.

“Companies were caught in a prisoner’s dilemma,” a research at the University of Pennsylvania recently told the New York Times. “They all wanted to move the field forward, but no one wanted to take the risks of doing it.”

But ten years ago, Dr. Neil S. Buckholtz, who oversees dementia research at the National Institutes of Health, realized that the sharing of research data was a collective action problem that might be solved through concerted leadership. He helped instigate a plan by which the NIH stepped up to serve as an “honest broker” between the pharmaceutical industry and academics. The goal was to ensure that all research would be shared openly and freely, and published on the Internet immediately, so that anyone could use it. You could publish a research paper and you could develop new treatments, but no one would own the data. Researchers would even be free to make mistakes or misguided interpretations — because who is to say at the outset that something is necessarily incorrect?

Seven years ago, the NIH persuaded scientists from the FDA, the drug industries, medical-imaging companies, academia and nonprofit groups to cooperate in an ambitious scheme to affirmatively share their findings with each other. As the Times reports (August 13, 2010), the sharing of data is now starting to show results. Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease routinely share their findings about “biological markers” that indicate the progression of the disease. This has led to recent scientific papers suggesting the value of PET scans and tests of spinal fluids as ways to make early diagnoses of Alzheimer’s.

The conventional business response to such radical ideas of “sharing” is that no company would have adequate incentive to invest in risky research unless they could be assured exclusive ownership of the results, in order to create a revenue-generating “product” (i.e., medical treatment or drug). But the drug industry has had to concede that diseases such as Alzheimer’s are just too scientifically complicated for any single research entity to tackle; the most fruitful way forward is to pursue an “open source” approach that places the basic building-blocks of knowledge into the commons – while sanctioning the private patenting of more refined medical innovations that build on the fruits of the commons.

It’s so common-sensical that it seems faintly ridiculous that a story of this sort should merit lead-story treatment in the New York Times.

Changeset [1504:0e0b6ce7c761]: More changes to Sphinx docs.

2010-08-31T21:50:58+00:00

More changes to Sphinx docs.

Word of the Day: Happy

2010-08-31T20:42:38+00:00

This is a common word in Shakespeare, with over two hundred hits in the Open Shakespeare search engine. Needless to say, I’m not going to go through all of them, but concentrate on one aspect of the word which has been a little lost over the centuries. Our starting point will be an innocuous little line from Romeo and Juliet:

PARIS Younger than she are happy mothers made.

Now, let us leave this line from Paris’ argument with the Capulet about his marriage chances, and head back two thousand years to Ancient Greece, and three goddesses called Thallo, Arxo, and Carpo. These three goddesses were collectively called the Horai, the plural of the word ‘Hora’, which is best translated by our English word, ‘Hour’. This should not be too surprising, given the resemblance between the Attic word and our own. What is important here, though, is not the word ‘hour’ but the word ‘happy’.

The Horai had many roles in the long and tangled course of Greek mythology, but they are consistently representative of times of life and of growth. From this, the ‘Horai’ become those goddesses who represent many things which make humans happy: Thallo means ‘one who brings blossoms’ (youth); Auxo, ‘one who brings increase’ (wealth); and Carpo, ‘one who brings food’. In the Greek tradition, happiness and timing are inextricably linked.

Skipping forward a few thousand years, and across a few thousand kilometres brings us to another example of the link between time and emotional state. In French, the word for ‘hour’, and occasionally ‘time’, is ‘heure’. Put that word next to the French for happiness, ‘bonheur’, or for ‘happy’, ‘heureux’, and the resemblance is obvious. Now, back to the debate between Lord Capulet and Paris:

CAPULET But saying o’er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world,
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;
Let two more summers wither in their pride
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
PARIS Younger than she are happy mothers made.

It is a debate, of course, about both time and happiness. Capulet’s language looks back to the fertility roles of the original Hours/Horai with his use of “summer”, “ripe”, and even “wither”. Meanwhile, Paris’ reply picks up all these themes and the parental concerns behind them with the apparently simple “happy”. Juliet will, in Paris’ eyes, be both a contented mother and one made a mother at a good time.

Thus concludes our journey through Ancient Greek mythology, French happiness, parental concern, and juvenile eagerness. All to resurrect an ambiguity that is more common than one might think. After all, one notes a certain similarity between ‘happy’ and ‘happen’. To finish then, here is a small smorgasbord of such ambiguous moments where emotion and timing are inextricably linked:

Two Gentlemen of Verona

VALENTINE My lord, I will be thankful
To any happy messenger from thence…

Richard III

ANNE God give your graces both
A happy and a joyful time of day!

Henry VI pt.3

KING EDWARD The harder match’d, the greater victory;
My mind presageth happy gain and conquest.

Henry V

HENRY V And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered,
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

Changeset [1501:0ee22393a40e]: make /api give docs and /api/rest give json

2010-08-31T20:00:53+00:00

make /api give docs and /api/rest give json

Changeset [1500:016c819c2819]: use minimised jquery.cookie instead

2010-08-31T19:39:07+00:00

use minimised jquery.cookie instead