Appropriate Software Projects

Datapkg

Datapkg is a Python package that supports atomization, registration, and distribution of open knowledge and data packages. More information will soon be available here and on the Open Knowledge Foundation site.

http://www.okfn.org/

This is our fourth project for the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Visiting Prisons

Visiting Prisons is a venture which aims to improve the experiences for individuals and families visiting a relative or friend in prison.

http://visitingprisons.org/

A winning project from Social Innovation Camp 2008.

Microfacts

Microfacts is a web application that allows people to string together 'factlets' into narratives organized by theme, time and space.

http://www.okfn.org/microfacts/

Our third project for the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Common Knowledge Archive Network

CKAN is a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own.

http://www.ckan.net/

Our second project for the Open Knowledge Foundation.

ScanBooker (Medical Imaging Administration)

The ScanBooker system supports the work of administering a brain scanning research facility. A facility administrator tracks research studies, ethical approvals, and schedule appointment for scanning of volunteers.

http://appropriatesoftware.net/scanbooker

This project is supported by the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit of the Medical Research Council and other imaging research units around the world.

Things We Love... Story Listening Workshop

A travelling workshop seeking joyful stories, encouraging people to record things they love to happen in the world. Oil pastels and drawing paper are provided for people to generate colourful pictures and word phrases. Each individual story telling is recorded in a story log, with a description of the story.

http://appropriatesoftware.net/thingswelove/

At the end of each workshop event, all stories and story logs are gathered, photographed, and added to a carefully curated collection.

The Civil Society Pattern Writing Project

We are continuing an on-going project to identify and record NamedPatterns of best-practice within CivilSociety. We are most interested in practices and systems which resolve common concerns within the civil society domain, and those practices and systems which relate to attempts to make information system improvements within civil society processes.

This project is motivated by the need to build language multi-laterally and follows a developing trend within software engineering to produce domain-specific patterns.

Please contact us (via the About Us page) if you would like more information about this (or any other) project.

Environmental Structures (Design Research)

We are involved with the Environmental Structures Research Group, an international network of architects with the following intent:

http://www.aboutus.org/ESRG

"We want to help to transform what it is to design, by developing (or further developing) new kinds of analytic and generative tools. We want to help shift the emphasis from the expressive intentions of the designer, to the adaptive processes that make a design most successful, and the tools needed to do that."

Foundation Development

The structures and movements of the Appropriate Software Foundation are actively developed, with most of the formal work planned as part of the Foundation Development project. An example of the work of this project is the foundation test suite, which is continuously improved, and which can be seen running on our buildbot service (see Services page for more information).

core internal projects

domainmodel

The domainmodel project supports domain and behaviour driven software design and development. The project has emerged from developing various domain driven designs, such as ScanBooker, KForge, Eternity, Desire and Provide.

Please visit the domainmodel website for more information.

provide (Application Service Provision)

The provide system both speeds and stabilises the process of software application service provision.

The provide system supports the execution of simple application service provision scripts. The purpose is to automate application deployment, data migration, and service cut-over, so that more time is available for identifying and resolving developmental concerns.

Please visit the provide website for more information.

desire (Curating Civil Society Processes)

We are continuing to acquire, store, and exhibit common names and behavioural aspects of civil society processes. To support this process we are writing a software system called desire.

The desire system supports recording descriptions of civil society processes as a series of responses to events. We hope desire will also support developing common domain models that can act as a conceptual foundation for future developments.

Please visit the desire website for more information.

Please also enjoy browsing Desire, our collection of processes which we are now recording with the desire system.

develop aka KForge (Software Development)

With the Open Knowledge Foundation, we are developing the "core" software to support open knowledge projects and an open knowledge community.

Please visit the KForge website for more information.

You can also learn more about open knowledge on the Open Knowledge Foundation website.

eternity (Development Timeboxes)

We are continuing to work in iterations of various shapes and sizes, for different clients and different systems, with different acceptance practices. To support such planning and acceptance work we have been developing a software system called eternity.

Please visit the eternity website for more information.

Please also enjoy browsing our backlogs and iteration plans that we are now making good use of.

Club (Hosting Software Clubs)

software development not started

We are hosting a number of software clubs, and planning to host a lot more. To support this work, we plan to create a software system called Club.

We are developing an analysis of the process of hosting software clubs, and creating a requirements specification for the Club system.

some older stuff

Website Evaluation

An action research project - funded by the UK Department for International Development - to develop and promote an effective process for evaluating websites.

http://appropriatesoftware.net/WebsiteEvaluation

Appropriate Website Factory

The Appropriate Website Factory is a Web-based system for specifying and producing effective websites.

http://appropriatesoftware.net/AWF

Appropriate Online News Clipping

The Appropriate Online News Clipping service generates and archives clippings from online news. Clients set news queries, and preferences for generation and alerts.

http://appropriatesoftware.net/clippings

CinemaEyes

CinemaEyes is an online, video-on-demand, content management system for viewing and exchanging film-clips.