2023-10-23

Intention: identify where David can start contributing …

📹 - see google calendar

Agenda

• 👋 Check-in
• 🌅 Context
  • David needs: wants to get closer to Open Data community and contribute in a flexible way. especially re DataHub, PortalJS. Wants to help.
    • Strengths: technical stuff around data especially architecting and moving stuff from 0 to 1 (i.e. prototying etc). knowing what stuff is happening
  • Rufus needs: more product ownership/leadership (as i'm doing) - that can include prototying but more just trying out the product, deciding what it is, etc. Ship a product with people signing up to it …
• 📣 Recap and updates

Datopian Product Roadmap

• Background: March Roadmap: https://github.com/datopian/portals-monorepo/blob/main/docs/notes/product-plan-for-2023-mar-2023.md
• Latest update: https://github.com/datopian/portals-monorepo/blob/main/docs/projects/review-update-product-roadmap-sep-2023.md

Updates on Naming etc

• Open Data Portal (SaaS) => PortalJS Cloud https://www.portaljs.com
• Toolkit is PortalJS (plus other stuff but let's not overcomplicate)
• There was no mention of Flowershow.
  • As a "Stack" Flowershow can sort-of merge with PortalJS
  • As an offer Flowershow should be there now.

David's Q

• Main two products offer: PortalJS and PortalJS cloud
  • Why two?
  • Rufus: in fact there are 5 options
    • Toolkit: framework for building data portals, data publishing and data management systems ✅ = "PortalJS" https://www.portaljs.org
    • Portal SaaS: get a data portal (for your city …) ✅ = PortalJS Cloud https://www.portaljs.com
    • GitForData SaaS: publish your data individually, self-service ❓⏭️
    • Enterprise DMS: data catalog / metadata management for enterprise … ❌
    • Marketplace: buy and sell data … ❌
    • Data community: … ❓
• Are data services for third party open source efforts? Ans: not really. mostly for whoever data management systems
• Why Open Data Portal -> PortalJS? Ans: Because we wanted one simple "brand" name we could use
• What are the unique things of DataHub Next?

Flowershow Cloud briefing

• Where's the roadmap https://github.com/datopian/portals-monorepo/issues/387
• What are the current issues/blockers?
  • Copy
  • Deploying
  • Launching

First steps

• Product vision
• Architecture
• Roadmap
• …

Context from David