Shuttleworth Highlights for July 2011

As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing monthly updates on what I’ve been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from July.

Talks, Events and Posts

• OKCon - wrap-up and aftermath
• Went to Washington, DC for Open Government Partnership meeting. Detailed write-up in this post: OKF at the Open Government Partnership. Met lots of interesting people.
• Open Data London meetup organized by Kat Braybrooke

Projects

• CKAN and the Data Hub:

  • New CKAN Vision post (developed at OKCon and written by James Gardner)
  • Lots of work on ckanjs - the CKAN javascript libraryand the DataDeck
  • Work on the Data Packages
  • Overhauled http://ckan.org/

• Open Data Manual - major update

  • Consolidated project info and resources (to http://github.com/okfn/opendatamanual and http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Data_Manual)
  • New theme plus improved content
  • New complementary project: Data Patterns - blog announce

• Annotator

  • Another small dev sprint - fixes and polishing
  • Growing amount of support and dicussion on the mailing list

• Open Literature and Open Shakespeare

  • Helping James Harriman-Smith with all the work he has been doing here
  • Organized TextCamp event for August

• HyperNotes (Weaving History reloaded)

  • Spare time project
  • Code: http://github.com/okfn/hypernotes
  • Try-out site: http://hypernotes.dev.okfn.org/static/app/index.html