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Invitation to Intermapping seminar, June 18. to 22., Witzenhausen
by Jon Richter 22 May '18

22 May '18

Dear friends, partners and mapping enthusiasts. It has been a long time since this list had disappeared, and TransforMap turned a little silent. These days we are undergoing a general overhaul of our primary ideas and are reconnecting with the other mapping communities. Please find below an invitation to an intermapping seminar from June 18. to 22. in Witzenhausen, Hesse, Germany. https://discourse.transformap.co/t/invitation-for-intermapping-digital-crit… We would like to hear your voices and aspirations about digital critical collective cartographies and actively bring the many many maps together, which we set out to achieve years ago. Sincerely, et à la prochaine, Jon

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Transformap Community Report #9 : November 2016
by Gualter Barbas Baptista 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Transformap Community Report #9 <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/transformap-community-report-9-november-…> *November 2016* 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. This report is a curated collection of developments in the TransforMap ecosystem during the last month. Read on for latest news about: * Upcoming Events * Communities * Technology * Projects You can also find this report on the discourse forum 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Events 19.11.2016 - Berlin : MapLab #1: The Map as a Commons The narrative of the Mapping as a Commons manifesto <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/mapping-as-a-commons-manifesto/1181> has been adapted by an event this week hosted at Supermarkt Berlin <http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/en/event/maplab-1-the-map-as-a-commons/>. How can we use mapping as a community resource and process? The first laboratory on collaborative mapping will be dedicated to a survey on available projects, software and digital infrastructures. We will select and set up a suitable platform to run a mapping exercise about the Südliche Friedrichstadt. 25.11.2016 / 3.12.2016 - Kassel : Mapping the good life A mapping workshop will take place in Kassel on November 25th, organised in the context of Transformap by Transition Town Kassel <http://ttkassel.de>, Ecobytes <https://ecobytes.net> and the Dokutopia <http://www.docutopia.de/> parallel initiative around next years /documenta/. The workshop outcomes - a map of alternatives for a good life in the region - will be presented on December 3rd, when Alberto Acosta will be in Kassel <http://ttkassel.de/flyer_buenvivir.pdf> (North Hessen, Germany) with an event about /buen vivir/. https://discourse.transformap.co/t/mapping-party-in-kassel-documenta-14-doc… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Communities The Gardens of Berlin The Berlin city will have a new gardens map available in 2017. At the same time, planning is undergoing to bring the platforms Stadtacker.net <https://stadtacker.net> (urban gadening) and Grünanteil <https://gruenanteil.net> (crowdmapping of garden parcels) to the next level. Can these efforts be coordinated as to make date available? https://discourse.transformap.co/t/gartenkarte-2017/1032/5 Translating the Transformap viewer With the weblate system in place (as described in the previous community report <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/community-report-8-october-6th/1206>), the translation of the menu items the Transformap Viewer is already undergoing. The initiative is being led by the SuSy project partners, but anyone is more than welcome to contribute with translations. Just visit https://weblate.transformap.co, register and you’re ready to start translating into your favorite language! Taskforce for dissemination of the alternative economies on Wikipedia and Wikidata @alabaye invites us for an orchestrated effort to disseminate concepts and projects on Wikipedia and “to dream about a Wikipedia article series on alternative economies”. Read more about the idea and other proposals like linkages to Wikidata on discourse https://discourse.transformap.co/t/wikipedia-contributions/1213 Farewell to the Yunity WuppDays in Witzenhausen Yunity has settled into an experimental living site at Bad Dürrenberg and is investigating its ever new relations to the still-to-be-maintained Foodsharing.de legacy and its other descendants like Sharecy (Blog <http://sharecy.org/category/general/>). Their aims, interests and activities currently touch TransforMap narrates in multiple places, i.e. by browsing the Mapping of Mappings for possible travel routes or by consciously engaging in a tempospatial self-organisation process with the /yunity contributors map/. We are glad and happy to see them disperse into new adventures again and are already looking into finding new chances for crossing paths. https://discourse.transformap.co/t/wuppdays-12-witzenhausen/1227/3?u=almere… From Marauder’s Map to Convene There is a description for a “yunity contributors map” <http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/yunity-contributors-map_108382#4/49.24/…> that resembles to the Marauder’s Map known from the Harry Potter franchise. This effort concludes preliminary work around an anticipatory, uncertain and distributed real-time mapping of peers’ locations. https://discourse.transformap.co/t/from-marauders-map-to-convene/1233 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technology Service overview @species created an overview of online services that make up the current TransforMap testbed. https://discourse.transformap.co/t/transformap-services/1226 Mapping of Mappings The Semantic MediaWiki on https://wiki.transformaps.net/ now generates thumbnails, so you can view beautiful little preview images of the collected maps. Several other developments made the experience of this maps atlas more pleasant. For example, the topics overview <https://wiki.transformaps.net/wiki/Special:BrowseData/Topics> offers a powerful tool for navigating hundreds of map on the alternative economies! A great invitation to the community can also be to engage in the open todos of the transformaps wiki <https://wiki.transformaps.net/wiki/Category:ToDo>. That is a great possibility for everyone with any skillset to contribute <https://wiki.transformaps.net/wiki/Category:ToDo>! Wikibase Our informants have passed on the information that WikiData is now trying to federate <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/wikibase-federated/867/12>. Help finding the gist of the actual activities and jump in. https://discourse.transformap.co/t/wikibase-federated/867/12 Weblate The weblate translation system for Transformap is now in production. With very few steps people are empowered to translate the menu items of http://viewer.transformap.co/ as well as https://susy-mapviewer.github.io/transformap-viewer into their own language. Find a short HOW-TO here <https://text.allmende.io/p/Weblate_intro>. Development Infrastructure Always working at the intersection of building the TransforMap services and the infrastructure that maintains them, we are reapproaching more than two years of previous work on bringing together backend layers that support our frontends <https://github.com/orgs/14mmm/projects/1>. These contributions target Pull Requests to the upstream projects Dokku and CouchDB. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Projects CHEST questionnaire With the end of the CHEST funding, we have been asked to share a questionnaire to be filled. It is very simple and takes around 2 min to fill in. Please find it on this link <https://crowdmonitor.herokuapp.com/listing>.

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Transformap Community Report #8: October 6th
by Gualter Barbas Baptista 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

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. -- The Transformap Collective

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Session on patterns for socio-technical commons at Degrowth conference
by Adrien Labaeye 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hi there, The Transformap crew will be giving a session <https://scriptum.degrowth.net/en/DG2016/public/events/36>tomorrow Thursday 1st of August at 2:30PM room 305 during the Degrowth conference in Budapest. Note that the session plan has changed due to change of speakers. Three patterns that emerged from our experience (federated communication infrastructure, co-budgeting, convivial and agile development) will be shortly presented as input for a discussion. Looking forward to seeing you there if you are participating. Kind regards, -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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Community Report #6: 15th of July
by Adrien Labaeye 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Dear Transformap friends and contributors, Here is the latest delivery of the community report. You can also find it on our forum and react to it there (or in this list)! Have a good read! ------------------------------ Community Update on call for proposal The call for proposal received until now 6 proposals! Still only two persons have shown interest in being part of the decision process in allocating funds. To make it really a community process, please take part in it by writing to me or writing on the thread on the forum. To allow for enough time, the call is extended until Sunday 17th midnight, don't feel shy and take part in the process of deciding how the money is allocated - this will take place from Monday 18th till Wednesday 20th without requiring participation in a meeting. Translation of social and solidarity economy vocabulary The translation of the first iteration of social and solidarity economy filters has started in wikibase <https://base.transformap.co/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=120>, with already more than 5 languages (including english, german, spanish, croatian, hungarian, slovenian, gaelic, farsi,...). .You can check out the translations with the language selector on the top of the site. ------------------------------ Technology New overview of the Transformap (socio-technical) architecture Jon Richter put together some more explanation of how Transformap broadly envision the process of connecting the maps and the vocabularies they use to describe alternative economies <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/the-transformap-architecture-in-simple-t…>. Another sketch roughly describes the process of creating new maps and connecting them to the Transformap architecture <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/the-transformap-architecture-in-simple-t…>. Feel free to ask questions, make comments! <https://discourse.transformap.co/uploads/default/original/1X/b920f54dc6db9e…> -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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Call for proposals and getting involved in the co-budgeting experiment
by Adrien Labaeye 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

Dear Transformap Friends and contributors, this is a reminder that you have until Friday 15th to submit a proposal. Don't be afraid you don't have to write a lot! Community oriented proposal (not technical are encouraged), so go for it. More info here: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/call-for-mini-proposals-funding-the-comm… And if you would like to be involved in the process of selecting the proposals, please tell me before Friday midnight! :) All the best, -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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Call for mini-proposals (buckets) from the community
by Adrien Labaeye 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Dear Transformap contributors and friends, 2000€ have been set aside to fund the community in contributing to the wider Transformap vision (i.e. related to mapping alternatives). We aim in priority at funding activities that will strengthen the community and the wider ecosystem. Primarily non-technical activities are encouraged. The way we'll do it is an experiment to distribute decision-making in the community, so please take part! Summary Proposals for activities to be funded that contribute to the topic of mapping alternatives can be submitted by anyone. Any person that has been active in the Transformap community will be entitled to take part in the decision making process as long as they make the request by 15th of July. The decision making process will happen over three days (16th till 18th of July midnight ECT) during which you can ask for direct support by contacting me (Adrien). When? - Deadline for submission of proposals is 15th of July. - From 16th till 18th (23:59 ECT) of July the proposals are collectively reviewed and funded. - Activities to be funded need to happen before the end of September 2016. Who can submit a proposal? Anyone. Really, anyone. You can also start a proposal even if you are not the one to implement (in that case you should have secured one or more person who are ready to implement that proposal by the end of the submission period). How to submit a proposal? Start a discussion on this forum in this Forum category <https://discourse.transformap.co/c/communities/community-buckets> with the title 'Community bucket proposal: [your short title]'. Describe the content and impact of the activities envisioned. Make an estimation of the budget you'll need. Small budgets (below 500€) are encouraged. And link you proposal in this discussion thread <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/call-for-proposal-funding-the-community-…> so everybody can hear of it! How will we decide on the proposals? The co-budget tool <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZQYKxhHwKuQGmOMPpoE8Eo0XMuw1yn55Bjg…> will be used. It's really easy to use! Don't be afraid. *How does this work?* Before the end of the submission period (15ht of July) anyone who has taken part at some point in any of Transformap activities who want to take part in the selection of proposals should inform us here on this forum thread <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/call-for-proposal-funding-the-community-…>or directly by email (adrienlabaeye [a] gmail.com) or twitter <https://twitter.com/alabaeye>. Each person who expressed the will to do so will be granted access to co-budget and allocated an equal share of the 2000€. This means you should inform us before the 15th of July, after this there is no way to get you involved! Once the money is shared between all participants, everyone distributes her/his share to the proposals she/he prefers. For example: say @Silke <https://discourse.transformap.co/users/silke> and 19 other persons have manifested the wish to take part in the process. This means @Silke <https://discourse.transformap.co/users/silke> receives 100€ on her Co-budget account. She can distribute the way she want those 100€, spreading it to more proposals or concentrating it on one she absolutely wants to see happen. Feel free to ask questions by email or directly on the forum: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/call-for-proposal-funding-the-community-… Please disseminate this call among people working towards mapping all alternatives! In solidarity, -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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Community Report #5: Thursday 30 June 2016
by Adrien Labaeye 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Dear Transformap contributors and friends, After a month break, here is the latest delivery of our community reports. Enjoy the reading and pay attention (and disseminate!) to the call for mini-funding proposals! Best, Adrien for the Transformap core team. ------------------------------ Community Call for community proposals to be funded We have set 2000€ aside for the wider community to propose small activities to be funded. We are aiming at funding 4/5 buckets between 400-500€ each. Smaller or bigger proposals are also welcome. We are inviting anyone wishing to fund activities that will contribute to the Transformap vision to write start a thread on our forum here . All proposals will be reviewed by anyone in the community who expressed the wish to do it - this will be an experiment to open radically the decision-making, and hopefully paving the way to a more participative Transformap. Please disseminate to all who could be interested! Details are available here: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/call-for-proposal-funding-the-community-… Degrowth 2016 Some of us are going to 5th Degrowth conference in Budapest from Aug30th to Sep 3rd. There is a thread in Discourse <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/2016-08-30-degrowth-conference-budapest/…> about it. Who else will be in Budapest for Degrowth? We would be happy to meet you there! ------------------------------ Tech Transformap's Wikibase for maps' taxonomies The Transformap Wikibase <https://base.transformap.co/wiki/Main_Page> is an interface based on the "Wikibase" plugin for Mediawiki that allows to store taxonomies and create connections between each elements of them. For example: 'community garden' is in the taxonomy of two different maps, those elements can be linked. This will be the base for merging different maps. It paves the way towards a systematic and machine readable documentation of maps' taxonomies, mirroring the way wiki.transformaps.net list all the maps of alternatives. A guide to create a new taxonomy can be found here <https://base.transformap.co/wiki/HowtoAddTaxonomy>. Proposal for ETL by James Lewis being reviewed The ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) component is a key piece of the infrastructure Transformap is putting together. It allow the extraction of data from a map, its transformation along a common standard, and the loadin of the data to our API (which then can feed any map or app with data). James has extensive experience in building a similar technical component. He produced for us a proposal as the basis of his coming work. We are currently reviewing it with him to set the basis of his work. More to follow soon! ------------------------------ Project Management CHEST We are coming to the end of an unusual complicated bureaucratic process with the CHEST consortium that has been fully independent of our will. We are waiting for money to be released and having some liquidity difficulty. We have oral agreement that we can extend the funded operations until the end of September and are waiting for a written confirmation. In the mean time, work is going ahead. SEDDAS A rough updated SSEDAS timeline has been presented to the SSEDAS partners recently. You can follow the development of the different task via the links to our Taiga: July - Translation of Filter System 1st iteration (July) https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/72 - Map user interface 1st. iteration (July) https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/31 September - Integration in SSEDAS site (Sept.) https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/task/369 - Integration in partner websites (Sept/Oct.) https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/337 October - 2.nd iteration of Filter System (Sept/Oct.) https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/320 November - Translation of 2nd iteration of filters / menu items (Nov.) - Editor (incl. 2nd iteration of filters) (Nov.) https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/27 | planning here: https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/221 - Responsive Map User Interface 2nd iteration (Nov.) https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/323 Stakeholder-Map in early 2017 https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/us/338 -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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[Transformap] Community Report #4
by Adrien Labaeye 19 May '16

19 May '16

Dear contributors and friends, Here is the last Transformap Community Report! Enjoy. As usual, the report lives also on the forum <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/community-report-4-19th-of-may-2016/1053>. Community The global Map Jam goes on! With over 300 participants, the third Map Jam organized by Shareable was successful and will be reconducted in June and October. Check out the Map Jam mapping guide <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hcxLZowxaXpE8FFcrflB8NEeB2XPKDwATdOR0k7…> (which we helped shape). Another round is planned during #SharingWeek betwen 5-11 June, check Shareable's website <http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-mapjam-is-connecting-the-global-sharing-m…> for more! Events map and Drupal integration for next Degrowth conference Transformap, through Ecobytes e.V., is supporting the web infrastructure for the 5th International Conference on Degrowth <http://budapest.degrowth.org>, which this year will take place in Budapest from August 30th to September 3rd. As part of an effort to downscale the local conference and massively disseminate it, a call for a global degrowth week of events parallel to the conference will be issue soon. Within an existing Drupal platform used by the degrowth network <https://co-munity.net/degrowth>, we are extending the existing event publishing feature. The first step was getting rid of the proprietary Google geocoder and replacing it with Mapzen, so that geocoded data on events can be used without restrictions <https://www.drupal.org/node/2722713>. This represent one more step in getting open geodata, this one on venue locations of the alternative economy, which will eventually feed the Transformap ecosystem. Tech First draft of Transformap's map vizualization tool A first mockup (visual draft) for the map is ready: https://media.taiga.io/attachments/8/2/3/d/511b30cd70f8eca801c04e83bfc2a7f4…. The focus is on allowing users to choose their filters to customize what they view on the map. The mockup is just a first rough visualization, and questions / feedback is very welcome. Share your feedback here <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/feedback-to-the-1st-mockup-draft-for-the…>. The current interface will focus on the englishspeaking implementation, meanwhile (with the above mentioned Wikibase) we prepare the translation process. Setting Transformap's Wikibase as our ontology server We are working to set up a Wikibase (clone of Wikidata) to act as our ontology server (so categories from various existing maps can used). At first, it will be used to host the SSEDAS filters, and then the TransforMap and many other taxonomies later. This Wikibase instance will also be used as the media server (images, texts). The upload of images does already work and is used in the SSEDAS maps development. SSEDAS taxonomy development On 24th May during the next SSEDAS Steering committee meeting the current draft of the 1st iteration will be approved to be implemented in the SSEDAS "SUSY-map". You can find the taxonomy items of the first iteration here until line 127 <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xSWyU1Ddy0luq8e6lGTWC1O89ilEWFndPBz…> . Project Management Widening paid contributions We are redefining our user stories <https://tree.taiga.io/project/transformap/backlog>, to acknowledge the requirements from both the community and the projects (CHEST and SSEDAS) and matching them to specific buckets <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12xFdAOFklljqLp9j9i0OPdhnpaRVJmoicFl…> - where both members from the current team and external contributors can get paid from. We expect to be ready up to the end of the month, and welcome any feedback on how to make budgeting and project management a process that can be pleasant and empowering for the Transformap community. -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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Community Report #4 postponed next week
by Adrien Labaeye 10 May '16

10 May '16

Hi everyone, Due to heavy workload I had to postpone the community report to next week. Apologies for the delay. Cheers, -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de c/o Thinkfarm Berlin | Oranienstraße 183 | 10999 Berlin | (3. Hof, Aufgang C, 3. OG) http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/

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