The writeup of the OKFestival is very incomplete, because I haven’t mentioned the fringe events! I attended two fringe events and they both were very good.
First, I attended CKANCon right before OKFestival. It was informal and co-located with CSVConf. My best takeaway has been talking to people from the wider community around CKAN. I often feel blind-sided because we don’t have a good view of CKAN. I want to know how a user of a portal built on CKAN feels about the UX. After all, the actual users of open data portals are citizens who get data that they can do awesome things with. I had a good conversation with folks from DKAN about their work and I’ve been thinking about how we can make that better.
I finally met Max! (And I was disappointed he didn’t have a meatspace sticker 😛
The other event I attended was Write the Docs. Ali and Florian came to Berlin to attend the event. It was total surprise running into them at the Mozilla Berlin office. The discussions at the event were spectacular. The talks by by Paul Adams and Jessica Rose were great and a huge learning experience. I missed parts of oncletom’s talk, but the bit I did catch sounded very different to my normal view of documentation.
We had a few discussions around localization and QA of docs which were pretty eye opening. At one of the sessions, Paul, Ali, Florian and I discussed rules of documentation, which turned out pretty good! It was an exercise in patience narrowing them down!
I was nearly exhausted and unable to think clearly by the time Write the Docs started, but managed to face through it! Huge thanks to (among others ) Mikey and Kristof for organizing the event!
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