Dear followers and contributors of the Transformap community,
We are happy to offer you the most recent community report, full of
exciting events and new features in our mapping ecosystem. You can also
find this report on the discourse forum
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/community-report-8-october-6th/1206>
and share your reactions there.
If you are new to Transformap, or just would like to know how to
contribute, you can start by reading our "How to get involved?"
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/how-to-get-involved/231> page.
Community
Patterns of Commoning: a Transformap workshop by Silke Helfrich
>From December 15th to 17th a workshop on Patterns of Commoning will take
place at the Transition House in Witzenhausen, under the lead of Silke
Helfrich. The workshop will be in German. Almost all places got filled
up immediately in the first days after the announcement. The
registration for a wider public is closed, but there are a few places
left for participants from the Transformap community. Please reconnect
with TransforMap during the workshop! Read the full invitation here
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/patterns-of-commoning-invitation-to-a-tr…>
and, in case you are interested in taking part, fill in this webform
<https://co-munity.net/transformap/anmeldung-patterns-of-commoning>.
"Mapping as a commons", What does it means? A Manifesto
Based on raw notes from the Commons Space at World Social Forum in
Montreal this summer 2016 and an initial version (0.1) by Jon Richter
(@almereyda <https://discourse.transformap.co/users/almereyda>), @Silke
<https://discourse.transformap.co/users/silke> has put together a
/Manifesto/ calling for mapping as a commons. Her complete post, with
context, can be read on her blog
<https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/commonsblog.wordpress.com>. The
Manifesto is also available on our Forum
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/mapping-as-a-commons-manifesto/1181>
where you are invited to post comments, feedback, proposals for editing,
etc.
Map Camps for Winter: Map-estival
At the World Social Forum in Montreal, an initiative to spur and enable
a long-term cooperation between different mapping initiatives has
started. A first meeting to build a core group that moves forward with
the project is being planned for the Winter. In perspective is a large
Mapping Festival in Summer 2017, where massive mapping of a specific
region can take place. For more information get in contact with Silke
Helfrich (@Silke <https://discourse.transformap.co/users/silke>).
Value Flows and Yunity
The Value Flows project is progressively continuing with modeling their
ontologies for Network Resource Planning. A main partner are the well
known Mutual Aid Networks
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/madison-wi-mutual-aid-network-mapping-su…>.
A technical demonstration of this collaboration lives at
http://locecon.org/. Recently we were looking together at the current
entry points for the Transformap community's vocabulary work, the
Wikibase <https://base.transformap.co> and the associated query
interface. Nearing a 1.0 release of the Value Flows ontology and knowing
the prospects of the Yunity project, we are now bringing them closer:
Yunity strives for offer and request matching and is building a
sophisticated platform, while Value Flows provide a stable foundational
data structure.
Berlin community wellbeing dinner
On November 9th, the #communities:berlin
<https://discourse.transformap.co/c/communities/berlin/17> are inviting
to a dinner at the Thinkfarm Berlin
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5544775> for sustaining our
mutual wellbeing and mapping interests. We are using this place to
gather feedback and opinions on whom to invite, which subjects and
ingredients to put on the table and how we may endow our activities even
further with already existing initiatives. You can find more information
on the discourse thread
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/09-nov-2016-transformaps-community-wellb…>.
Tech
RDF support for automatic generation of taxonomies as Linked Open Data
We finally managed to setup the Blazegraph database as RDF interface to
our taxonomies!With this, we reached a major milestone: to have a
database where we can create interlinked taxonomies and serve them as
RDF (see the respective community story
<https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/154> for more details). It
is now used to serve the translations of the (currently only) SSEDAS
taxonomy in the TransforMap Viewer in 15 different languages
<http://viewer.transformap.co/#5/51.166/10.451>. A guide on how to add
your personal taxonomy will be provided in the next weeks.
Translation system now available
A translation system for Transformap now in place. Weblate
<https://weblate.transformap.co> provides a facility for the translation
of the user interface, and allows any user to contribute to the
translation of any non-taxonomy parts of the Transformap Viewer.
Map editor
The work for setting up a Map Editor for Transformap has started. The
technical team has decided to use Karte von Morgen's editor
<https://github.com/transformaps/kartevonmorgen>, in conjunction with
Transformap's own API <https://github.com/TransforMap/transformap-api>.
Follow and contribute to the development on our Taiga community story
<https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/27>.
Research
Article project: collaboratively mapping alternative economies
Adrien Labaeye (@alabaeye
<https://discourse.transformap.co/users/alabaeye>) is preparing a peer
review journal article entitled "Collaboratively mapping alternative
economies", where he proposes a three-pronged typology to help navigate
the diversity of mappings initiatives in the field of alternative
economies. Adrien is very much looking forward to gather feeback from
people who have been involved in the practice of collaboratively mapping
alternative economies. Please visit the thread on discourse for more
information
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/collaboratively-mapping-alternative-econ…>.
CfP: Geographies of Degrowth
On the bridge between geographical research and theory of degrowth, the
American Assocation of Geographers has launched a call for papers for
its' meeting in April 2017 in Boston. Interested participants should
send their title, 250-word abstract, and affiliation to Giorgos Kallis
(giorgoskallis(a)gmail.com), Karen Bakker (karen.bakker(a)ubc.ca) and
Federico Demaria (federicodemaria(a)hotmail.com) by October 15, 2016. More
information on this discourse post
<https://discourse.transformap.co/t/cfp-geographies-of-degrowth/1198/1>.
Projects
CHEST
The CHEST funding has officially ended on September 2016. Thanks to this
fund, we achieved major milestones and were able to prototype - and in
some cases even beyond - a series of tools and deployments that form the
core of the Transformap infrastructure. Our final report, redacted by
Get Active, has already been approved by the consortium coordinators.
Ecobytes and Get Active have now to provide the final cost claims in
order to receive the last chunk of funding.
Application to Prototype Fund of the Open Knowledge Foundation
As part of the efforts to stablise and extend the commons infrastructure
which provisions Transformap, Jon Richter @almereyda
<https://discourse.transformap.co/users/almereyda>) has submitted an
application to the OKF Prototype Fund
<https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-1225.html>, funded by
the German Ministry for Education and Research. The submitted
application
<http://jon.wiki.allmende.io/view/bedarfsszenario-allmendeio> aims at
developing and stabilising a range of services that have been
provisioned to the community via allmende.io.
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