Place to put potential sources until we figure out a format?

[brentajones]

A suggestion: It might be nice to have a spot for people to contribute links to sources (e.g. Census 2014 data release schedule ).

This would allow us to start collecting them now, even before we have a format in place. It would also let less technically-inclined folks contribute suggestions if they aren't sure how to add them to whatever format we wind up with.

I don't know if an Issue is the best place for this, or a .md file in the repo.

[dwillis]

I think issues would work fine for this, but curious what others think. We could have an issue with details about the scheduled release (agency, url, date/schedule, some description) until we figure out a format for the information.

[ghing]

I think issues is one way to do it. My personal preference would be for people to just start throwing information up in whatever structured format makes sense to them. We define a cut-off date and review the submissions and figure out how to reconcile the different schemas formats. The benefit of doing it this way seems like a low-friction way to see people's needs concretely.

[dwillis]

@ghing smart as usual. so, perhaps best way forward is to add agency-specific folders and allow people to add to them?

[ghing]

@dwillis honestly, I'd let it be a free-for-all and sort that out via pull requests so we can see how people define agencies. It will be messy initially, but I think it will cover more use cases in the long run. Maybe put suggestions in the README, e.g. "Put your release event in a sub-directory for your agency". We can update the README as we see emergent practices.

[stevenrich-zz]

I do like the idea of free-for-all with a sort later. May find sub-agencies to put into broader agencies that way. Would also be good to have folks put release notes with files so, for example, if data from every state comes in 50 files and it's combined by uploader, at least they know what to expect upon release of new data. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

[dwillis]

Ok, that sounds good to me. Let's do it.