Hi all, For those of you who haven't heard about the Open Knowledge Foundation we are a not-for-profit promoting open knowledge: that's any kind of information - sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata - that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed [1] and we rely heavily on Python for a lot of our work.
One of our key products is called CKAN [2]. It's an open source, web-based data catalogue written in Pylons, SQLAlchemy and Genshi which is used by various organisations, governments and councils around the world to help them organise and share data with the public. Most notably it powers the UK government's http://data.gov.uk site which you may have seen in the news when the UK government released details of all department's spending over £25,000 [3]. CKAN is rapidly becoming very popular so we are looking for more people who are passionate about open knowledge to join our team. Although we do have voluntary contributors we are particularly interested in hiring expert Python web developers (probably as contractors and based in London if possible) so I wanted to draw your attention to the links below in case you are interested: http://www.python.org/community/jobs/index.html?#open-knowledge-foundation-worldwide-but-particularly-london http://blog.ckan.org/2010/12/16/python-web-expert-jobs/ Beyond that it would just be nice to connect with other people on this list who are interested in open data and Python so do get in touch with me (on or off list) if this is your sort of thing. Happy Christmas all, James Personal blog: http://jimmyg.org/blog [1] The Open Knowledge Foundation: http://okfn.org [2] CKAN developer site http://ckan.org and catalogue: http://ckan.net [3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11795313 _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
