CKAN Introduction with zh_TW

@keitheisKeith Yang

• architect.py in biideal.com
• Organizer/Coordinator in Taipei.py
• Web Lead in PyCon Taiwan 2013
• Thinking of PyCon Taiwan 2014

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

Survey:

1. Installed CKAN?
2. Internationalization (i18n) and/or Localization (l10n)?
3. Create Organizations on CKAN?
4. No experience?
5. Well, just walking by?

“... Powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data.”

Backed by Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)

CKAN 2.0 Release

• Jinja2 - easier template and theme
• Authorisation and workflow:
  • Introducing CKAN ‘Organizations’
• More built-in previews
• # Announcing CKAN 2.0 | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

Software Architecture

• Core: Pylons
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Database ORM: SQLAlchemy
• Template: Jinja2
• I18n and l10n: Babel (& gettext)
• Search: Solr

What!?

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

Read the official (endless) documents

Many useful info on the official sites:

• SQLAlchemy
• Jinja2
• Pylons
• CKAN

The core of i18n of CKAN

“tools to build and work
with gettext message catalogs”

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)

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.

Working on application

1. Setup & Develop
2. Maintain
3. Goto 1

Setup & Maintenance

1. Linux (& Security)
2. HTTP Server (Apache or Nginx)
3. PostgreSQL
4. Solr
5. Backup and Disaster-Recovery (DR)

Development

1. Pylons
2. SQLAlchemy
3. Jinja2
4. PostgreSQL
5. Babel

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

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(?)

None mentioned here:

• Javascript parts
  • e.g. Newly introduced pdf.js
• CKAN 2.2 (in alpha)
  • Know where you're

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