Open Data
Git for versioning data and analysis workflow
This blog post [1] gives an example on how to use versioning control software (in this case, Git) for collaborative analysis. I think a GIP research meeting would be a good opportunity to discuss how such or a similar setup could work for GIP...
[1] http://blog.okfn.org/2016/11/29/git-for-data-analysis-why-version-contro...
Introducing new open source and open data place search engine
This blog post [1] introduces a new "search engine for places", based on open data (OSM) and open source software. It is an especially interesting project, because it addresses some shortcomings of existing geocoders [2] like scalability and flexibility. Personally, I find the (admittedly basic, but still...) implementation of a reverse geocoder [3] remarkable.