What’s Cooking? Update Dec 09
First off, we want to thank all our supporters so far. We keep getting email messages with requests for data sets and more importantly… “what’s cooking and when can I eat?”
Good news. We now have 5 local entities working with us to securely expose their data for consumption by the people of Singapore. Unfortunately, not all the legal bits have been sorted so we cannot release their names but … we can say there is a team of 5 students who have completely given up their Dec holidays working downstairs doing nothing but ingestion, testing and exposing. We hope to have something for the public to play with early in the new year.
What else is exciting… we have a decent pipeline of content requests and content owner engagements that we are now pausing our user voice “tell us what you want” voting site.
As always, we would love to hear from you. Drop us an email at projectnimbus at live dot com dot sg.
Happy holidays!
- The Project Nimbus Team
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Dear Project Nimbus Readers,
Thank you for giving us your feedback on Project Nimbus. We’ve heard you and we want to hear more from you. You can now find us on Twitter and start all the chat with us. What’s more, you can now suscribe to our RSS for latest happenings.
Here are some photos from our event last week at Fusionopolis. A big thanks to those who came by our booth and for those who did not manage to come down, please look out for our future events!
Project Nimbus Team
Project Nimbus FAQs
- What is Project Nimbus?
- What are the objectives of Project Nimbus?
- Who administers Project Nimbus?
- Who is the target audience for Project Nimbus
- How does Project Nimbus work?
- What can we expect from Project Nimbus?
- How can I be involved with this project?
- When can we start seeing things from Project Nimbus?
- Where can I suggest new ideas or vote for ideas?
- Where can I get more information on Project Nimbus?
Project Nimbus is an initiative that hopes to solve innovators’ problem of finding data sets and services by offering a central place for authoritative and reliable data and services access from government and commercial entities in Singapore.
-To unite the voices of Singapore Innovators and identify data sets and services in demand
-To work with content owner and government entities for the appropriate release of data sets and services to Singapore Innovators
-To help innovators focus on innovation
Project Nimbus is currently administered by a group of passionate volunteers.
-Industry
-Government agencies
-Content owners
-Application developers
-Grow and facilitate success of Innovators:
Lowering the barriers for Innovators by providing them tools and assets to quickly and easily focus on innovating.
-Create an Innovator’s Marketplace:
Build a central and open marketplace for Innovators to offer and consume data and services.
-Assemble offerings for Innovators:
Great opportunity to easily showcase offerings that may benefit Innovators.
- Focus on continuing innovation:
Spend less time on the “how-tos” and more time on actual innovation.
-Access “it just works” data and services:
Data and services interoperability in a single consistent API for developers to use to access authoritative and reliable data in Singapore.
-Monetize their efforts:
Enable “services store” scenarios for content / service providers to monetize.
Innovators can expect a central marketplace for easy-to-use, authoritative and reliable data and services access from government and commercial entities in Singapore.
Content owners can expect guidance and feedback on how to release their content securely and economically to innovators. There may also be opportunities for monetization of content which we also provide guidance and toolkits for.
Vote (www.projectnimbus.uservoice.com)
Let us know what types of data sets / services you are keen to see. Every few weeks, you have our commitment that the Project Nimbus volunteers will gather and act on the top requests from our voting site.
Volunteer
We are currently a non-profit effort powered by volunteers. If you are keen to help or have access to key content companies or government agencies, do drop us an email at projectnimbus@live.com.sg.
As of Sept 23, the Project Nimbus council has formally taken several requests from its uservoice page and reached out to various content owners. We’ve since made some progress and we are in the midst of collating the data for the marketplace. To get more updates about the Project Nimbus progress, keep a look out of our official site at www.projectnimbus.org.
Visit www.uservoice.projectnimbus.com
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Nimbus First Public Appearance
Howdy,
Project Nimbus will be making its first appearance at MDA’s i.Jamming Networking Event tomorrow at Fusionopolis. Our committee will be giving a 5 minutes talk on Project Nimbus, and if you’re interested to know more about Project Nimbus, we’ll be having a booth right at the event where you can check us out. So head down to Genexis Theatre @ Fusionopolis tomorrow!
Date: 23 October 2009
Venue: Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis
Time: 1600-1820
You spoke and we heard…
Hi there,
Thanks for all the great suggestions and votes. Innovators of Singapore… you have spoken and we heard you loud and clear. As of Sept 23, the Project Nimbus council has formally taken on several requests and has reached out to the data owners. Do continue to post and vote for your favorite data sets / services and stand a chance to win Project Nimbus limited edition tees! (Do remember to sign in!)
Nimbus Limited Edition Tees
Trivia: Do you know what does the tshirt designs mean? Email us your answer, and the fastest 5 will win a tshirt from us.
Clue: Check out the hand signs :)
Who we are and what we do…
We are a group of part-time innovators who happen to work in organizations that have great relationships with key companies and government entities throughout Singapore. You may already know us or have seen us as we attend the same innovator events you do. Over the past few years, we have continually heard (and even experienced) the struggles our fellow innovators face. Instead of pursuing our passions of creating and innovating, we innovators end up chasing or recreating content, screen scrapping sites, and Google-ing for random data sets.
What a horrible waste of time. You are not alone.
Over beers a few months ago, a few of us got together and said, ”Hey, I think we all can work together to make life easier for Innovators”. Project Nimbus was born.
Our goal:
- To unite the voices of Singapore Innovators and identify data sets and services we as Innovators want
- To work with content owner and government entities for the appropriate release of these data sets and services to Singapore Innovators
- To ultimately help innovators focus on innovation (instead of the silly stuff that burdens us all today)
Get involved:
- Tell us what you want – VOTE
- Are you an innovator? Let us know what types of data sets / services you are keen to see. Vote here.
- Every few weeks, YOU have our commitment that the Project Nimbus volunteers will gather and act on the top requests from our voting site.
- Volunteer!!!
