Add a license and contributing information.

[camfindlay]

As outlined in - https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/new-zealand-government-open-access-and-licensing-nzgoal-framework/nzgoal-se/nzgoal-se-guidance-note-2/#what-documentation-should-i-include-with-my-code

[camfindlay]

I've got some example docs for this in other repos we'll just borrow from this.

[camfindlay]

Under what licence shall we make this information reusable? I'm keen for CC BY 4.0 given it's most open while ensuring attribution.

[camfindlay]

Ping @thoughtfulbloke

[thoughtfulbloke]

CC BY 4.0 sounds good to me- helpful if people want to include it in teaching materials etc

[camfindlay]

Sounds good. Aiming to set up the supporting docs in the next couple of days. We could aim for a blog post on data.govt.nz in the next couple of weeks.

[thoughtfulbloke]

a couple of thoughts:

• Should the snippet of example R code be separately licensed with a computer licence while the overall archive is CC by 4 (as that is primary a content lincence)? I am happy to be guided by your opinion on this (I normally use MIT for example code, but again defer to you as host).
• while I work on a blog post for a couple of weeks, are you happy for me to make some Twitter noise in the short-term? (the a second round of noise around the blog post).

[thoughtfulbloke]

some thoughts forming into a blog post:

Inspire. Guide. Illuminate.

Get some credit for what you know. Share.

There is open data in New Zealand. Sources like data.govt.nz, and others, provide gateways into data publicly available for use. But now, we are adding another piece to the jigsaw of making it useful.

We (data.govt.nz together with David Hood) have setup a github repo as a place people can share the location of examples they have created when working with open New Zealand data.

If you have created something, for example a tutorial, or a code example, or an interactive, this is a place where you can share what you have done and contact information for showing credit for what you have done.

For people who want to work with open New Zealand data, this is intended as a place to go where they can find examples and inspiration from datasets people have worked with and shared. For the entries people can explore both the example and the data that went into the example.

For those who have created projects using New Zealand open data, it is intended a place where they can share their expertise with others, provinding examples to others as a showcase of their expertise.

Those who have created examples can add them to the GitHub repo in the same format as the existing examples. Those who have not used GitHub before are going to have to learn the steps of:
• cloning the original repo
• add your details to your cloned copy of the repo
• pushing your changes back to the original so they are included

[camfindlay]

Thanks David - I'll work with our content lead to work through edits and scheduling 👍 Best email address for you?

[thoughtfulbloke]

The best email is david@thoughtful.net.nz

as an aside, are you comfortable with me being excited about this on Twitter at this stage? I've held back saying much publicly until it was set up.