Collaboration Call: April 5, 2019

1. Technical Updates

UK team

Testing and publishing the survey headers on the UK site. Working with Brock on how to make changes to the page and working with the SDG translations repo.
Switching the UK to version 0.5.0 of Open SDG.
Lucy working on the conversion script for SDMX

CODE team

Getting ready for version 0.5.0 and a new version of SDG translations
SDG Build had a recent update. It is now up to 0.3.1. There are some architectural changes that may help with SDG import
- Lucy - how to add another column to be ignored? Has to fix in both SDG build and open SDG and Brock is working on a longer term fix for the future.
- Ann and Kali will be in Geneva and will be giving a presentation on user experience for SDMX. What can she say about where Open SDG is in terms of their automation work?
  - Working on importing or automatically pulling SDMX into Open SDG and then will be looking at outputting SDMX into Open SDG
  - SDG Build is supposed to be, eventually, a tool for converting different kinds of formats for the SDGs: SDMX, CSV, GeoJSON, etc.
Would also like to build a feature that shows N/A or missing values instead of blank.
- Germany uses dash signs for non-existent values so it is possible
Google groups email address
- Can assign and discuss things through an email chain.
- Ann and the UK team would like to test it out so Caleb will sign them up and send out a few test messages to the team so that they can see how it works.
Any progress on finding another grant?
- Ann feels like it’s important for the longer term success of the project and is happy to help look over applications or help with the process.
Blog post
- Ann has looked it over and will send back notes
  - She wants to see if there is a way to include key points stacked above the text to pull out the main messages.

Country/subnational interest in cloning the NRP

Kyrgyzstan: UK will be speaking with Kyrgyzstan on the 10th
- Will be helping them next wednesday to use 0.5.0.
- Thinking of using Circle CI to be more aligned with Open SDG. Thinking of shifting the UK as well but have to do more investigation first
Rwanda
- Using version 0.4.0. They have maps on the site as well and are just waiting for approval from Jean Claude to push the changes to the site ahead of the data conference in Kigali
Ghana
- Chris working with them to push to version 0.4.0 and then version 0.5.0.
Kazakhstan: Brock will be working with Kazakhstan next week
- Planning on using Open SDG 0.5.0
Justus has been successfully keeping the German platform up-to-date and adding new goal icons as well