iRail is IPv6 ready
Good news for the few of you who are IPv6ing!
Thanks to our awesome partner iLibris, all iRail services are now IPv6 enabled.
The nameservers support IPv6 requests as well, and the AAAA records are set… But just in case you want to memorize it, here’s the IP: 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fedf:5fef.
We, dear reader, are ready for the future! 😉
A Year with iRail – by Miet
So I would like to tell you about the wonderful time I have spent with iRail. As you might or might not know, the last few months I have had the pleasure to work there. I will continue to work with iRail—just not as a paid employee. I’m going back to the volunteer I used to be, supporting everyone involved. Say whaaat?
So here’s how it started…
About a year ago, I was finishing my Master’s degree as a Graphic Designer. My mission was to find an NPO that did something I could relate to, help them out with a new visual identity and build them a strategy. I was convinced to find some inspiration at TEDxUHasselt 2011. Little did I know what was going to happen.
Yeri & Pieter got on stage. They talked about the way our world is changing, and how we need to improve the way we move around the globe. About the growing number of people on the surface of the earth, about public transport, informing each other and open data. About moving together. How can we make travelling and commuting fun and easy?
After their talk, it was certain we were going to work together. Their talk inspired me, and they still do. I sent them an e-mail and we started to build a new visual identity. They embraced my enthusiasm and gave me the chance to work with them.
I got to know the Force behind iRail. A whole community of talented and motivated people keeps iRail alive. Ideas come to life and find their own way. Wonderful initiatives are supported, giving people opportunities they never thought possible.
The sentence “Supporting digital creativity concerning mobility” sounds a little complicated. What iRail actually does is improving our lives and supporting ideas that might change the world — if only it is a little dent!
After a while, they offered me a job. I met hundreds of interesting people, got the chance to improve my skills and to work on challenging projects. And we’re still working on those. Together with the community, we have accomplished some great things, including the open transport data manifesto and to help FlatTurtle get off the ground.
We all need to eat, so do I. But sometimes, I believe money just stands in the way of innovation and motivation. That is why I think being a volunteer is better than an employee. I am more than willing to help create more opportunities for iRail and the community.
See you soon!
Miet
Fork the open transport data manifest
Transportation is a major contemporary issue, which has a direct impact on economic strength, environmental sustainability, and social equity. Accordingly, transport data – largely produced and/or gathered by public sector organisations or semi-private entities, quite often decentrally – represents one of the most valuable sources of (Public Sector) Information (PSI, also called ‘Open Data’), a key policy area for many, including the European Commission.
This is the first paragraph of the Open Transport Data Manifest. During the OKFestival in Helsinki, the open transport working group at OKFN organised a PSI sectoral meeting on transport data. The manifest is a summary of the entire day, where all kind of stakeholders from over 15 different countries were invited to help think about informing European travelers as good as possible.
- The first slide of the manifest. More on github
The manifesto document was then transformed into an infographic by Miet Claes and Michael Vanderpoorten (both members of iRail). The infographic is also available in slides style. Because we want everyone to be able to help with the manifest, and to reuse this work, we have published the source files on github. We invite you to fork the infographic and use it for your own slides on open transport.
Help sending this infographic to the policy makers who need to see it and let us know on the mailing list.
Pieter
The Hub
Hi all,
It’s official! Thanks to our friends of Mobile Vikings (the mobile operator with the best customer service in Belgium) and Massive Media, we now have a (co-)working space in the heart of Ghent.
We are not always there, but feel free to send an e-mail when you would like to visit people who are working on an iRail project (The DataTank, iRail.be, the API, Ghendetta, FlatTurtle, We Open Data, etc), feel free to ping us on twitter/via mail/via phone and so on.
Internship at iRail
Hi students,
Want to do an internship or master’s thesis Bouncy Castle at iRail? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We have plenty of projects which might want your input: communications, management, graphic design, software engineering, sysadmins, and so on.
info at iRail.be
Pieter