Partnership with CKAN to build open data portal

[Niyati Gupta]

Hi -

I'm a graduate student in University of Michigan working with a team to help Jackson, MI implement an Open Data platform. We want to partner with a vendor to build the portal and CKAN seems to be very promising. I have seen many open data website powered by CKAN. I sent several emails to CKAN team but no one has responded yet. Can anyone connect me with a person at CKAN who can help me out with this?

Also, we were hoping to learn from other small(er) municipalities what might be best practices for building open data. Or if anyone has any advice for our team on how to approach the issue, we would love to hear.

Thanks for getting back to me if you can. 

Best, 

Niyati