Anu and Rufus - 2023-04-17

Present: Rufus, Anu

Intention: :mid-sprint review

• Review board
• DataHub next discussion
• Flowershow discussion ✅2023-04-17 ❌

Agenda

• 🧘 Noble silence
• 👋 Check-in
• 📝 Create agenda
• 🏃‍♂️ Review agenda
  • Where are we in the sprint?
  • Rest of the sprint
    • Do we have sufficient backlog? ✅2023-04-17 not quite …
    • Some action to prompt traffic: "Check out PortalJS the modern javascript framework for building data portals. [We're working hard as we head towards a v1]"
  • Backlog for next sprint 🚧2023-04-17 did some work
  • DataHub Next ✅2023-04-17 see notes below
  • Flowershow discussion ✅2023-04-17
• ⏭️ Check-out and next actions
  • North star migrated to https://github.com/datopian/portals-monorepo/issues/333 and into the underlying project page
  • Update discussion 345 in monorepo to summarize view of using simple github datasets and point to new discussion in portaljs @anuveyatsu

DataHub Next direction discussion

See notes below plus recording of discussion from last week with David Gasquez (start at 22:42) https://drive.google.com/file/d/17HQ50Tzc9ILY-Z7lXCMgjtpEtFrbEkHj/view?usp=sharing

Anu comments:

• Sounds like we want to have something similar but beyond github/datasets where lots of people are curating datasets. Because github/datasets is kind of community of data enthusiasts now curating some datasets. So this is more like - let's create a product out of it, have it's own platform etc.

Rufus Notes on Direction of DataHub (for David Gasquez)

DataHub is a Data Collective. A home for people who want to curate and play with data.

• focus is on community
• keep it simple

Potential Features

• Make it easy to bookmark and archive dataset
  • Paste a url and we store it for you
  • Pain of opening a github repo
• Turn github repos into a page because that is easiest way to publish
• Curated "core" datasets in a commons. Connect datasets. Wikipedia for datasets.

Over time:

• People would build add-ons and tools
• Business models would arise

Starting point

"unsplash for data": publish one dataset a week that we post on reddit/r/datasets etc with a nice graph.

Post dataset on github.com/datasets

Business model

• Selling data (long-term)
• Chargeable API
• Data bounties and data scraper community

Brainstorm of Options for DataHub

• Data Projects: a bit like Github for data.
• Data Publishing: Showcase for your data (intersects with previous)
• Data Scratchpad (dumping):
• Data Curating: be part of a club
• Data Pinterest: pin interesting vis, datasets etc

Website for portal.js

Rufus - here's my advice to Joao

Posted on https://github.com/datopian/portaljs/issues/754

North star again? (where are we going)

Outcome visioning - what does success look like?

People are buzzing about PortalJS in the data portal community 😜

Brainstorm

A bit more detailed:

• People are using it to build portals (including us). 👍
  • We see interest, eg, issues/discussion topics etc.
  • Traffic is growing (more a metric)
  • A great looking website with insightful content such as docs, tutorials. (input)

Down the road

• People are reaching out to Datopian about PortalJS.
• GitHub Repo is getting attention more stars etc. (metric)

Further Down the road

• We find first paying or interested in paying clients.
• LLs/PMs are discussing PortalJS as a great product/framework for new clients.
• We closed tenders/new clients wanting PortalJS.
• We've launched SaaS version.