Project Nimbus

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

1. What is 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.

2. What are the objectives of Project Nimbus?

-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

3. Who administers Project Nimbus?

Project Nimbus is currently administered by a group of passionate volunteers.

4. Who is the target audience for Project Nimbus

-Industry

-Government agencies

-Content owners

-Application developers

5. How does Project Nimbus work?

-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.

6. What can we expect from Project Nimbus?

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.

7. How can I be involved with this project?

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.

8. When can we start seeing things from Project Nimbus?

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.

9. Where can I suggest new ideas or vote for ideas?

Visit www.uservoice.projectnimbus.com

10. Where can I get more information on Project Nimbus?

Visit our official site/blog at www.projectnimbus.org

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.

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