Welcome! This blog is a collection of all sorts of things we want to record either for ourselves of things we think might be of use for others. Articles are from Birgit and Matt Fullerton; maybe at some point our kids will write some articles too.

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  1. Building 2030-watch.de: measuring progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs)

    For the last 15 months the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany has been working on a prototype to monitor progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs) from an independent, civil society-led perspective. There’s a detailed blog post on why such independent monitoring is necessary at our

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  2. Generating HTML 5 videos for Chrome (with Virtualdub Mod)

    I finally took the time to educate myself on the virtues of HTML 5 video. I’ve been doing presentations in HTML for a while now, but had been using browser plugins, which were awkward. Chrome’s preferred format is “VP8″ inside a container called “webm”. I often am preparing videos for presentations with Virtualdub Mod, as

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  3. Upgrading Drupal 6 to 7

    So, I’m finally going to take the plunge; first with a test, local site, and then with mattbirgit.de. Only found one point to watch out for, in addition to the clear advice at: http://drupal.org/node/570162: It really is important to update to the current Drupal 6 before upgrading; that isn’t just ‘in case’ some assumptions are

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