Weekly Update: Rufus Pollock

All last week in South Africa for Shuttleworth Fellows meetup
Post about meetups and hackdays in South Africa
Humanities working group meetup
Limited coding and contribution to CKAN, specifically on:
- data package manager
- Recline Data Explorer (with Max Ogden) - cf this ticket http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1357
Work on v0.11 release of OpenSpending. In particular updating and improving openspendingjs so that we have a proper bubbletree explorer. Check out, for example this bubbletree of UK gov expenditure in 2010 - which also includes a breakdown (see the donut ring) by region
OKFN Dashboard hackday
Africa at Home hackday where I worked on PyBossa - an opensource crowdsourcing engine. PyBossa is a port the BOSSA crowdsourcing engine to python (a bit like an opensource mechanical turk but without money!) and with an initial focus on helping scientists and other researchers crowd-source human problem-solving skills!

More meetings and coding with people in South Africa including Cape Town meetup
OpenSpending especially coding on ETL and loading system and getting data loaded!
Finish off Community Dashboard with Tom Rees
Data Explorer integrated into new CKAN resource pages