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Community Report #3: 27 April 2016
by Adrien Labaeye 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Dear Transformap friends and contributors, Here is the latest community report. Hope you enjoy! You can find it online version here <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/community-report-3-27-april-2016/1042/1>where you can also comment, give feedback. Oh, and it would be great if some of you could confirm they're receiving those emails so we're sure that our mailing list does work. All the best, Adrien for the community ------------------------------ Community Migrating our inventory of maps Since the beginning of our adventure we have inventoried existing maps of alternative economies as well as mapping resources (like atlases or tools). The wiki is now relocated at the following address: http://wiki.transformaps.net/. The overview of existing maps is here <https://wiki.transformaps.net/wiki/Mappings_Overview>. Feel free to contribute and add missing maps or complete/update information! We're looking at ways to make that inventory easier to navigate and more visually attractive. Ideas? Get in touch! Highlighting some relevant discussions on the forum In our effort to build a community, let's highlight two related discussions. One with Ben Brownell from Metamaps <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/alignment-with-real-economy-lab/205> which touched to the issue of determining to what community (eg. Transition, Commons, etc.) an initiative is belonging to. The question is who is legitimate to do this. Our answer no one! or, better, everyone! This spurred the related discussion <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/leave-it-to-the-user-collectively-shapin…> which is the background that brings us to one of the main deliverable we're working onl: let users collectively shape taxonomies, make their own filters. In other words really enable non technical people to shape new maps of alternative economies. More discussion with metamaps.cc We've had some more contacts with the friends of metamaps.cc through their platform - did you know you can video chat with other mappers while looking at the same map? it's working great!. I learned at his occasion that a basic import function is about to be available. Check for updates here <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/mapping-ecosystems-with-metamaps/1043>. ------------------------------ Tech Taxonomy development process with SSEDAS We are figuring out how to use the SSEDAS taxonomy development process outcome for creating compliant data sets for the SSEDAS map displays. Last week, we were holding a SSEDAS partner Taxonomy skype call <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VuA02WkytUl5rmMMlydHLtGSSGyCjw8RkHk6xJ0…>. We concluded, that the qualifiers, required for some Types of Initiatives (shops, restaurants, farms), will build on the qualifiers already established by ESS Global. - In the first week of May we have another open Taxonomy Call <http://doodle.com/poll/6wqk7tsay5sdwfyk>, to give people an introduction in the Taxonomy System, and prepare the SSEDAS inputs for a Conversation with ESS Global to prepare their qualifiers Version 2.0. Jason Nardi from Ripess offered to be the interface with ESS Global, and for the 2nd week of May, we scheduled a meeting to converge on the Qualifiers (more details here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VuA02WkytUl5rmMMlydHLtGSSGyCjw8RkHk6xJ0…> ). ------------------------------ Project Management Administrative issues CHEST Get Active is now validated by the EU Commission for the CHEST project and Ecobytes is almost there as well. Even with the validation granted, there is seemingly an endless stream of paperwork still coming, which might be completed quite soon. SSEDAS - We are in good relations with the SSEDAS Steering Committee, as well as with the activity coordinator Jan Urhahn from Inkota.There is a common understanding, that the community work with the SSEDAS partners requires more effort than expected, that we invest more time in converging with external partners (e.g. ESS Global), and also for our own process. We do our best to keep deadlines and deliver an awesome SUSY-map. - The SSEDAS partners are now almost finished with delivering us their first data, and we are working and structuring it currently to provided it to the API.- A first draft for the visualization is sceduled für the comming week. Budgeting: In further shaping the budget (within the current spreadsheet format), no progress happened, as the respective people in the team required to work on it could/would not take the required time to meet. In the mean time, some team-members are also focusing on trying the software co-budget to assess whether it can be used for managing community buckets. -- Adrien Labaeye +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | <http://transitionlab.de>

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[TransforMap] Community Report #2: Dinner, tech, buckets...
by Adrien Labaeye 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

In this second community report you will get a general update on the budget process, on the current tech proposal regarding the management of filters/taxonomies, and some updates from the community at large. Hope this is informative. Feedback/critiques/ideas are welcome! ------------------------------ Community Community dinner in Berlin We were a dozen, old and new, to share a tasty dinner (thanks to @kei <https://discourse.transformap.co/users/kei> cooking skills!) at Thinkfarm Berlin. This was the occasion to reconnect the community in Berlin, face-to-face and hear critics. This was very valuable. Plans related to the socio-technical infrastructure that is being developed were discussed (in the Tech section). 1-DSCF7875.JPG1024x768 415 KB <https://discourse.transformap.co/uploads/default/original/1X/9facb07ef215db…> Presenting TransforMap at Code for Berlin Jon Richter presented TransforMap to a small group of civic tech activists of Code for Berlin. Here is his presentation <https://t.co/4HOoFS7yYC>. This was a step in putting TransforMap of the civic tech's map and talking about (re)decentralization of civic data. Opening the discussion with Yunity: a sharing platform in development Yunity <https://project.yunity.org> is a project that is building an open source multi-saving and sharing platform for food, items, skills, transport, spaces... We have initiated dialogue <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/yunity-org/983> to explore synergies. Connecting the dots, one by one - we're building an Ecosystem, not an organization. The Atlas of Social Maps Another significant addition to our collection of atlases <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/listing-all-atlases-of-maps/1012>! The Atlas of Social Maps <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TGXJF2f05fTFjKFsbRp2QFmeXu-htLtEP8F…> collected over 50 examples of maps in a google doc, with systematic background information about each map such as tools used, geographic coverage, map purpose. A good report about this atlas (with a nice visualization) can be viewed here <http://www.social-life.co/blog/post/social_maps_atlas/>. ------------------------------ Tech Embeddable map viewer based on LeafletJS is being developed As part of the SSEDAS project stream, @kei <https://discourse.transformap.co/users/kei> is working on the initial development of a web map to display solidarity economy initiatives suggested by the projects' partners. This means that with a simple line of code - that can be copy pasted - anyone can embed this map on their site. Inspired by maps like the one on www.digitalsocial.eu, the map will have easy-to-use search and filtering options, as well as icons to clearly identify initiatives' area of focus within the solidarity economy. This search function will later be very useful for providing an open source interface for searching web maps and visualizing the TransforMap taxonomies. New proposal for collectively shaping taxonomies and developing visualization filters As part of the CHEST and SSEDAS projects, we are currently finishing the processing of the first data sets and taxonomy structure. The team has put a large effort in articulating the tensions between the different typologies and classification of points, the desired taxonomies (SSEDAS, TransforMap community proposal to OpenStreetMap) and existing efforts with which we want to collaborate (ESSglobal). For developers, it means getting a safe space for focusing on technical development. For site managers, it means having an easy to use API endpoint to get access to open geographical data of choice. For end users it opens the opportunity for collaboration on making meaning of geographical data. Read more and discuss >> <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/leave-it-to-the-user-collectively-shapin…> ------------------------------ Project Management Overhauling the institutional setting for the TransforMap commons production In 2015 we have settled the first institutional framework of TransforLap, based on sociocratic circles. A few months later, with the need to bring together different skills for the development of tools and the process, overcoming the we had the first agile/scrum team <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/using-scrum-in-the-production-of-techno-…> of TransforMap. As you probably know, there were many unclarities in how we govern and manage the funds, and the role of the so called "scrum team". After analyzing it, we came out to a new proposed framework to understand our commoning and commons-based peer production process, which we call the Erlenmeyer flask. We are happy to share the proposal and the analysis on the institutional failures with the community and discuss it further together. Read more and discuss >> <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/producing-commons-with-an-erlenmeyer-fla…> SSEDAS will soon become SUSY SUSY is the name of the Map for the SSEDAS project. This map is provided by the TransforMap collective under the CHEST/SSEDAS funding scheme. We're glad to say that the majority of manually collected data from the SSEDAS partners arrived and is being aggregated. SUSY stands for "Sustainable and Solidarity Economy". More info to be found on SUSY's website <http://www.solidarityeconomy.eu/>! You can also see the involved partners/countries here in discourse: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/about-ssedas/500- SSEDAS & CHEST budgeting update: introducing community buckets Integrating the critics about the way financial resources have been managed, we are currently working on - presenting a deliverable-oriented cost structure to better navigate the use of funds - a community bucket system to open up (as much as allowed per our funders) the implementation of the deliverables. - a smaller community bucket where the community is encouraged to propose work to be funded: eg. a Metamaps import function <https://twitter.com/Connoropolous/status/711170162737553408>, further development of the Atlas of maps <http://wiki.transformaps.net/>, etc. More detailed information (amounts of buckets) to come in next report! Thanks for your patience! CHEST / Funding Administration After we processed the first request for the EC to contract changes, as required by all CHEST partners, all projects got the request to do it again in another way. Another EC department requested that. That is some minor paperwork - but time-consuming - that is almost done. It might bring the good benefit, that we might get 3 months of time extension, but that is just gossip until now. Some more gossip, the EC is very happy about the first reports of the overall CHEST project. ------------------------------ Tip of the day: Follow the TransforMap Twitter account <https://twitter.com/transformap> to engage in the conversation and further connect the ecosystem :D -- 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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Your contribution to community report + Dinner in Berlin on Wednesday
by Adrien Labaeye 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Hello, please share with me any update that you find relevant to the Transformap wider community. It will be integrated in the next community report. Please do so before Wednesday :) You may also share information that you would like to see connected to your nod (your point on the map) on our Transformap Ecosystem map <https://metamaps.cc/maps/1938>. Be reminded that you can also contribute to the map directly (requires a login) :) For those in Berlin, on wednesday 13.4 , we'll have a networking dinner in Berlin at Thinkfarm Berlin. Details and registration here <https://attending.io/events/transformap-two-years-later>. Looking forward to hearing from you! -- 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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Fwd: #MapJam Host Guide and Q&A Session
by Adrien Labaeye 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Dear Transformap friends and contributors, Our friends from Shareable are organizing a global map jam to put sharing on the map. The idea is to start a map of sharing resources/initiatives in your community/city. We have supported Shareable in putting together the technical part of their MapJam Guide, in particular in explaining how to use the open source mapping app uMap instead of Google Maps. Please see below for more information. You may ask related questions here: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/how-to-do-a-map-jam/1008 All the best, Adrien -- Whether you are a current MapJam host or you hosted the last time around and have been deciding if you'll be joining us in April, we want to share this years Host Guide with you. This years #MapJam is scheduled for April 4th-17th, but many groups will be mapping later in the month, so there is still plenty of time to join us. For those who have been patiently waiting, we are very sorry for the delay. We had a whole plan on how this years mapping was going to go, but unfortunately the mapping platform won't be ready this April. So we have been working diligently in the background to come up with a solution that should work great. In addition to offering the Host Guide, we would also like to invite you to an online #MapJam Q&A session this Thursday and a training for how to use uMap next Monday. *The Host Guide <https://shareable.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdoc…> *(A treasure trove of resources to successfully coordinate their event including sections outlining: how and why to host a #MapJam, how to recruit participants, how to map, what to include on your map and how to share and leverage your map in your cities and communities.) Sample Press Release <https://shareable.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmapjam2014-shareable.n…>(For Local Events) *#MapJam Webinars:* -#MapJam Q&A Session <https://shareable.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F776492%…> March 24th, 11am (pst) (***Click on the link to join <https://shareable.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F776492%…> ***) -How to map with uMap <https://shareable.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F776492%…> March 29th, 9am (pst) (***Click on the link to join <https://shareable.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F776492%…> ***) Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Tom @ Shareable http://shareable.nationbuilder.com/ <http://shareable.nationbuilder.com/?e=3dd0d9bd9bb863897cffc4c07b0a8363&utm_…> -=-=- Shareable · 487 Central Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States This email was sent to adrienlabaeye(a)gmail.com. To stop receiving emails, click here <http://shareable.nationbuilder.com/unsubscribe?e=3dd0d9bd9bb863897cffc4c07b…>. -=-=- Created with NationBuilder <https://shareable.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnationbuilder.com&e=3d…>, software for leaders. -- 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 #1: setting a precedent
by Adrien Labaeye 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Dear transformap friends and contributors, This is the first so-called Community Report. Over the past months, we have been indeed very bad at making sure the wider Transformap community is well informed, we are very much aware of that. So first, we would like to apologize for that. Somehow we didn't allocate someone to take care of such activity. So in our learning process, we have decided to aim at a bi-weekly Community Report that will provide some key updates along three categories: Tech development, Community development and Project management (this is a temporary category that is connected to specific financial streams). I personally will be the one coordinating that report, but support is welcome! Each community report will be sent on the two mailing lists (check the recipient of this email) and archived on our forum <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/community-report-1-31st-march-2016/1011> where you it may be updated and where are encouraged to ask clarification questions, give feedback, ideas, etc. In introduction to this report, we have to bring back a little bit of context. Context In January 2015, the community held a conclave in Potsdam, deciding on a working structure in circles <http://blog.14mmm.org/transformap-has-a-working-structure-and-its-wild/> where consent was the modus operandi for taking decisions. At about the same time, we learned that our application (attached) to the EU program CHEST <http://www.chest-project.eu/call-3-winning-projects/> funding was successful, meaning we would have secured 60 000€ of co-funding. The two non profits GetActive and EcoBytes being the official legal bodies to manage that funding. That funding was however delayed due to a tough legal conflict between the EU Commission and the CHEST consortium. That funding finally started last October, with the first money transfer. In the mean time, we had another community meeting in June 2015 in Munich, where it was decided, not without tensions, that Josef Kreitmayer and Michael Maier would proceed in putting together a proposal for the SSEDAS project („Social & Solidarity Economy as Development Approach for Sustainability“ ) to setup their mapping platform as a Transformap prototype (partly at least). In September, we held a Roadmap workshop at the Solikon Conference <http://solikon2015.org/en/concept-solikon2015> in Berlin, gathering community inputs on priorities for the development of our socio-technical infrastructure. In the Autumn 2015, a core team composed of Josef Kreitmayer (GetActive) Gualter Barbas Baptista (EcoBytes), Michael Maier and Jon Richter spent a lot of time in planning the operationalization of those two project funding into the Transformap process (note the difference between 'projects' and 'process'). This was, and still is, very complex for various reasons: technical complexity (this is now partly under control), financial setup involving two different funding sources and two funding recipients (this is in the finalization phase), horizontality of the collective clashing with project managerial constraints (this is still an open tension). Finally, a hackathon was held with developers (Jon, Gualter, Michael, Maxime) in Witzenhausen in the first weeks of February to put together the first blocks of the Transformap API <https://github.com/TransforMap/data.transformap.co> (an engine that can take data from one place and put data in another place - a key piece of infrastructure in other words). This brings us to the last weeks that are summarized in the section below! ------------------------------ Tech Development API The API (application program interface) was tested and works! Developers who would like to use it or fork, it's here: https://github.com/TransforMap/data.transformap.co This API is key to further develop the Transformap infrastructure. [more information on tech development is awaited and will hopefully come in the next report] ------------------------------ Community Development April Berlin Events We are convening a VoCamp (Vocabulary Camp) in Berlin this 12th of April to explore similarities in the vocabularies used by existing mapping initiatives. Want to participate? Help organize the event? Check the pad here https://text.allmende.io/p/transformap-2016-april On 13th of April we celebrate (because it's always good to celebrate!) our community at the Thinkfarm Berlin: cooking and eating together with a relaxed evening. Please register here: https://attending.io/events/celebrating-2-years-of-transformap Community mapping While we've failed to inform the historic community, the Transformap collective at large (visit the Who's who <https://discourse.transformap.co/c/welcome-on-board/who-is-who> to check new members) has continued to network and expand, connecting to other like-minded projects. To get an overview you may check the mind map of the Transformap community <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/mapping-the-transformap-ecosystem/970> - and feel free to collaborate, it's open! Communecter.org Our friends at Communecter <https://www.communecter.org> (Tibor) have launched their city-based platform. This allows you to create projects, initiative profiles, events, to share news with your neighbours or your city council, etc. And all this is being developed as a commons: from software to data! And better: it is built for interoperability! This means we are part of the same ecosystem and collaboration lies ahead. *You can support them by chipping in their crowdfunding campaign <http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/communecter-se-connecter-a-sa-commune>* (English version to come soon). SEMEOZ We've established a good connection with Maia Demireva from France and the Semeoz non profit. They collect stories of constructive change and in particular maps. They have gathered over 160 maps <http://semeoz.info/carte/> in French! There is also a Facebook group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/cartosemeoz/?fref=ts> to gather those maps. Metamaps Our friends of http://metamaps.cc would need a couple hundred euros to add an import function that would allow making mind maps from an excel sheet or a dataset a two click task. In other words a great feature to improve the whole app and bring in more data, opening the door towards interoperability one step at a time. We are looking at our current budget to see if we have enough resources to dedicate a small bounty for the metamaps developers for that specific feature. *Is that a good idea?* ------------------------------ Project Management This section is specifically about the management of the CHEST and SSEDAS funding streams. As a self-organized collective we would have liked never to have to talk about project management, but constraints attached to such funding have forced some of us to take that hat (mainly Josef, for GetActive, and Gualter, for EcoBytes). We need to make serious thinking about how to better manage money in the future, to make sure it reinforces the commoning process. For this, WE NEED YOU! We've started a conversation here: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/separate-commons-and-commerce-to-make-it… Check the update from Josef about the recent news connected to the CHEST and SSEDAS funding management: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/bi-weekly-community-report/1007/4 If you would like to further understand the current process from the 'project management' perspective, or in other words, where the money goes, you can have a look at the budget. It's for the moment still hard to navigate. Soon will come a better version. We'll keep you updated about that! Link to budget: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/chest-ssedas-combined-budget-proposal/850 Deliverables of the CHEST funding are in the application (attached). ------------------------------ Looking forward to the next steps of this adventure! 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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How to make your own map with uMap
by Adrien Labaeye 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hello mappers, Tip of the week. I recently put together a short guidance on how to start your own map using uMap <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/how-to-make-a-personalized-map-with-umap…>. Feel free to ask further questions there. Other resources to start mapping are available on our forum here <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/which-tools-are-available-for-mapping/265> . Remember that we have a FAQ category <https://discourse.transformap.co/c/mapping/faq> on our forum under the category 'Mapping' where we try to answer all questions regarding concrete ways to map your community. Of course, you're welcome to plug in and improve the resources yourself. 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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Who is the TransforMap community?
by Adrien Labaeye 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Dear TransforMap friends/contributors, Hard to keep track of what's going on? As a first step, I prepared a map of the TransforMap ecosystem <https://metamaps.cc/maps/1938> (social graph) for all of us to increase our collective awareness. I have used information that I could find on our Who's who on our forum <https://discourse.transformap.co/c/welcome-on-board/who-is-who>. It is not complete though and *all of us with relevant information are invited to contribute*: e.g. add organizations/networks that don't appear on the map, add the components being developed, add profile information (link to twitter account...). If you're not on the map, but would like to appear on that map, there are two ways: add yourself to the Who's who <https://discourse.transformap.co/c/welcome-on-board/who-is-who>and/or add yourself to the metamap <https://metamaps.cc/maps/1938>(both action will require a login). If you're really allergic to any of those platforms, send me an email and I'll add you on the map (not on the forum though). 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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Webinar: presenting the first Transformap API
by Gualter Barbas Baptista 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

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Upcoming sprint retrospective and planning meeting
by Gualter Barbas Baptista 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

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Invitation to Engineering Circle TransforMap Roadmap Meeting
by Michael Maier 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

Hey fellow engineers, I'd like to call in for a (Mumble telco) meeting to work on the TransforMap tech roadmap including our next projects, SSEDAS and CHEST. Scheduling: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/monkey_circle_meeting/ Estimated duration for the first meeting: 2-3 hours. One meeting will very probably not be enough, but we need to start. Everyone who wants to contribute his tech (and also social) skills to TransforMap is welcome to join the meeting! For questions, please reply on the corresponding Discourse thread: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/calling-in-the-monkey-circle/692 (Or here, if you're not yet on Discourse, I try to merge your posts in) Greetings, Michael -- Michael Maier, Student of Telematics @ Graz University of Technology OpenStreetMap Graz http://osm.org/go/0Iz@paV http://wiki.osm.org/Graz http://wiki.osm.org/Graz/Stammtisch

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