Reboot data patterns

[rufuspollock]

Return it to its roots - recipes and patterns for hard-core-ish data geeks

Site is http://datapatterns.org/

Jan 2015: IN PROGRESS: https://github.com/okfn/datapatterns/

Tech stuff

• Turn it into jekyll
• Encourage contribution
• Keep it simple
• datapatterns.okfnlabs.org (or okfnlabs.org/datapatterns)

@pudo wdyt?

Aside: the current orphaned sites still gets ~1k visits a month i think

[LaurieJ]

what's the site?

No reference to it that i can find on dataprotocols.org... or by googling...

[pudo]

Damn, I replied to this from my phone and apparently it didn't submit.

@LaurieJ - datapatterns.org was a collection of simple design patterns for data processes. We decided to fold it into the ScoDa Handbook when that came up.

I'm with @rgrp, though: I think there's a (large!) niche for having a collaborative document targeted at active practitioners, rather than beginners. My vote would be to have a set of stubs and then launch it, mainly to demonstrate the scope and format.

I also think datapatterns.org would be nicer than an OKF-branded domain, it's just a fairly cool and easy to remember name.

[rufuspollock]

OK, I've located the repo (and renamed it): https://github.com/okfn/datapatterns

I've established with @mihi-tr that we can we can do what we like with it. First step I think is to revert to closer to its original state (before it was becoming the handbook).

[rufuspollock]

Revert back towards original state and made into github pages style: http://datapatterns.org/ (done a few weeks back).

[mihi-tr]

Good move! - Now will it live?

[rufuspollock]

@mihi-tr yes it will! Would you like to help edit :-)

Our first step is to convert the restructured text stuff over - see https://github.com/okfn/datapatterns/issues/69

[mihi-tr]

Will this be a labs project? How do we plan to get contributors?

[rufuspollock]

I suggest this is a "labs" project to the limited extent that means anything formal :-)

Re contributors: I suggest we get a basic site up (looking a bit nice) and document a clear way to contribute (e.g. edit this pattern, add a pattern) and then start advertising this - first to the labs list, reddit, etc etc

[pudo]

Do we actually want to have some fixed pattern format as well, perhaps as a jeykll template? e.g. along these lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern#Documentation

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Rufus Pollock notifications@github.com wrote:

I suggest this is a "labs" project.

Re contributors: I suggest we get a basic site up (looking a bit nice) and document a clear way to contribute (e.g. edit this pattern, add a pattern) and then start advertising this - first to the labs list, reddit, etc etc

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[rufuspollock]

@pudo i think have some kind of standard framework would be nice - do you have a specific suggestion?

[rufuspollock]

IN PROGRESS: https://github.com/okfn/datapatterns/