OpenSpending Data Wranglers Community (Reboot)

[rufuspollock]

Situation: data gets loaded into OpenSpending by people, by “data wranglers”.

Complication: there is currently no (community) structure for those data wranglers - for people who want to load data into OpenSpending: no obvious place to find others, to ask questions or get help, or to know what datasets are being worked on or need someone to work on.

Question: what can we put community processes can we put in place to support OpenSpending data wranglers?

[rufuspollock]

Some immediate thoughts:

• A dedicated section on this forum for data wranglers and others to ask questions and get help re data loading
• Creating a place to track datasets people are working on. A github issues tracker could work quite well and I note we already have GitHub - os-data/registry: A tracker for data to load into OpenSpending

[rufuspollock]

Update OS data wrangling now has a dedicated organization:

OpenSpending Datasets

Also datatoload has moved to:

GitHub - os-data/registry: A tracker for data to load into OpenSpending