@keitheis
Keith Yang
• architect.py in biideal.com
• Organizer/Coordinator in Taipei.py
• Web Lead in PyCon Taiwan 2013
• Thinking of PyCon Taiwan 2014
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CKAN & me
• 3 months experience & CKAN (1.8) with zh_TW
• 3 years experience & Pylons
• ~1 year experience & Pyramid
• n years experience & Web, System Admin, Open Source
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Survey:
1. Installed CKAN?
2. Internationalization (i18n) and/or Localization (l10n)?
3. Create Organizations on CKAN?
4. No experience?
5. Well, just walking by?
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“... Powerful data management system that makes
data accessible – by providing tools to streamline
publishing, sharing, Qnding and using data.”
Backed by Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)
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“with great power,
comes great
responsibility.”
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Good news
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CKAN 2.0 Release
• Jinja2 - easier template and theme
• Authorisation and workRow:
• Introducing CKAN “Organizations”
• More built-in previews
• # Announcing CKAN 2.0 | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
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Pylons book for the work
• Internationalization (i18n)
• Routes
(mapping /this/url to class Controller def action)
• Watch out ckan.logic
• CKAN's own logic behaviors
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Read the of9cial (endless)
documents
Many useful info on the oScial sites:
• SQLAlchemy
• Jinja2
• Pylons
• CKAN
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The core of i18n of CKAN
“tools to build and work
with gettext message catalogs”
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mitsuhiko/babel
The news of Babel
Babel project was frozen on 0.9.6 for 2 years.
During EuroPython 2013 @
Florence, Armin Ronacher
called for Babel sprint to revive its evolution with
features required. (e.g. Python 3 support)
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The core of Babel: gettext
(python setup.py extract_messages)
python setup.py update_catalog --locale zh_TW
python setup.py compile_catalog --locale zh_TW
Watch out the language written in database, templates
and images.
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More on details
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The challenge of
running CKAN
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Just like running a
startup
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Working on application
1. Setup & Develop
2. Maintain
3. Goto 1
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Setup & Maintenance
1. Linux (& Security)
2. HTTP Server (Apache or Nginx)
3. PostgreSQL
4. Solr
5. Backup and Disaster-Recovery (DR)
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Factors of business
• Human Resource (HR) is key (as usual).
• Marketing or no one use it.
• Monitor performance.
• Educate new [ user | operator | developer | admin ]
• Passion & reward
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You might encounter...
• Bugs or issues (tickets on trac)
• Try (to learn) search trac
• CKAN issues moved github!
• Finding (or being) a dev ops like an entrepreneur
• Javascript issues
• Finding users(?)
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git show
git branch
None mentioned here:
• Javascript parts
• e.g. Newly introduced pdf.js
• CKAN 2.2 (in alpha)
• Know where you're
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