Blog – ckan

The CKAN Tech Team welcomes its newest member: Jari Voutilainen

We are happy to announce that Jari Voutilainen (@Zharktas) has become the latest member of the CKAN Tech Team. Jari has been an active member of the CKAN community for a long time, with his first contributions dating back to 2014. Since then he has been regularly involved with the CKAN community, helping other users...

By Adrià Mercader | December 20, 2019 | Community |

Migrating our mailing lists

During CKAN long history, public community channels have played a crucial role on its development and adoption. The mailing lists are a really important part of these channels, allowing the community to request and provide support, showcase work and discuss issues related to the project. The current mailing lists ([email protected] and [email protected]) have been kindly...

By Adrià Mercader | November 22, 2019 | Community |

New patch releases for CKAN 2.8, 2.7 and 2.6 now available

The CKAN technical team is happy to announce that the new patch releases for 2.8.x, 2.7.x and 2.6.x are now available to download and install. These patch releases fix important bugs and security issues, so users should upgrade as soon as possible to the latest patch release for the CKAN version they are using. Patch...

By Adrià Mercader | July 3, 2019 | Releases |

The CKAN on Python 3 Initiative. Get Involved!

One of the major initiatives the CKAN Stewards are focused on delivering in 2019 is CKAN compatibility with Python 3. In this post I’ll give an overview of what we envisage for shipping CKAN on Python 3, and how interested developers, users, and vendors can take part. TL;DR The CKAN Stewards and CKAN Technical Team...

By Steven and Paul | June 17, 2019 | Community, Releases |

Introducing Bilateral Stewardship for the CKAN Open Source Project

The following announcement was issued by the Open Knowledge Foundation via their blog: The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) Board met on Monday evening to discuss the future of the CKAN Association. The Board supported the CKAN Stewardship proposal jointly put forward by Link Digitaland Datopian. As two of the longest serving members of the CKAN...

By Steven and Paul | June 10, 2019 | Association |

My First 100 Days as a CKAN Contributor

Note: Re-posted from a Link Digital news item. OP by Ruth Bekele. My experience working with the CKAN open source project, via a CKAN contributor role sponsored by Link Digital within Open Knowledge Ethiopia, has been a great opportunity. The working environment is friendly and helpful. My direct manager, Solomon Mekonnen, who has establish Open...

By Steven De Costa | April 3, 2019 | Uncategorized |

CKAN 2.8.2, 2.7.5 and 2.6.7 patch releases now available

By Adrià Mercader | December 12, 2018 | Releases |

Our Response to the Open Letter to the Open Data Community

On March 2017, the Civic Analytics Network (CAN) - a consortium of Chief Data Officers and analytics principals throughout the United States, published the Open Letter to the Open Data Community. It listed eight guidelines “that, if followed, would advance the capabilities of government data portals across the board and help deliver upon the promise...

By the CKAN Association | September 20, 2018 | Association, Events, Roadmap |

The Canadian Open Government team and the CKAN Association invite you to attend CKANCon 2018!

The Canadian Open Government team and the CKAN Association invite you to attend CKANCon 2018! CKANcon will be on September 25th from 10:00-16:00 ART the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Remote participation is also encouraged. The conference is being held as a pre-event to the International Open Data Conference (IODC18) taking place later that week. What is...

By Steven De Costa | September 7, 2018 | Community, Meetups |

CKAN patch release 2.8.1 now available

We are happy to announce that the new patch release for 2.8.x is now available to download and install. This patch release fix important bugs and security issues, so users should upgrade as soon as possible to the latest patch release for the CKAN version they are using. Patch release upgrades are very straight-forward and...

By Konstantin Sivakov | July 25, 2018 | Releases |