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Paul Mason, Opening of SOLIKON - with reference to TransforMap
by Silke Helfrich 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Dear transforMappers, this link should be widely shared with potential partners in the UK or posted on the TranforMap website. All the best Silke @paulmason And here's a link to my Solikon intro which was an expanded version of my intro at the deep dive; https://medium.com/@paulmasonnews/keynote-speech-solikon-berlin-f0e2caeff8d8 Sent from my iPhone

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Friday in Berlin at Solikon 2015 +++ Bulletin
by TransforMap collective 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

Dearest TransforMap community, to the English speaking in Berlin around Solikon 2015 these days, please feel again kindly invited to attend our workshop tomorrow on Friday at 14:30 in MA549 https://www.tu-berlin.de/menue/service/standortuebersicht/campusplan/ to yet another session of your favourite MMM flavour. "TransforMap has a strategy and because it's distributed, it needs you!" Citing further from http://solikon2015.org/en/transformap-or-mother-many-maps-making-alternativ… "Our world is transforming. There are old and new alternatives all over the planet. TransforMap will show you how to get there." Until Monday, there's still few beds left in our shared dormitory; or if you'd just like to hang around for some conversations on converging convivial concepts, e.g., approach us. See https://discourse.transformap.co/t/523/52 for details. Else talk to you next time, maybe in Budapest [1], maybe in Lille, Can Decreix or elsewhere MMM [*] https://attending.io/events/degrowth-infrahack

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Some insights about running maps
by Adrien Labaeye 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Hello transformappers and friends! Here is a blog input summarizing the knowledge I have been collecting over the last months by making interviews with the people behind various mapping platforms: *Field research summary for TransforMap: some insights about map commons <http://blog.14mmm.org/field-research-summary-for-transformap-some-insights/>* Looking forward to feedback, comments, contradictions! You can leave comments on our forum <http://discourse.transformap.co/t/field-research-summary-for-transformap-so…> ! Looking forward to seeing some of you soon in Munich for our intermediary meeting. 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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NGO interest in TransforMap? Inkota-request
by Silke Helfrich 25 May '15

25 May '15

Liebe Alessa, über INKOTA Interesse freue ich mich als altes Inkota-(Ko-Kreis)-Mitglied natürlich ganz besonders. Insbesondere, weil es ja hier um einen eher globalen Zusammenschluss von NGOs geht, die in dieselbe Richtung denken wie TransforMap. Mir scheint, Ihr habt da was vor, was TransforMap tatsächlich seit anderthalb Jahren tut und entwickelt (allerdings ohne EU-Unterstützung) und was so ziemlich unfassbar komplex ist. Daher bin ich froh, dass Christine und Jan (glaube ich) von Anfang an auf der Liste mitgelesen haben und nun dieser Kontakt zu Stande kommt. Ich erinnere mich, dass ich vor gut einem Jahr verstanden zu haben, dass das nicht INKOTAs Ding ist (hatte auch mit Arndt kürzlich dazu telefoniert.) Was wir machen kannst Du am besten hier nachlesen. http://transformap.co/ oder Du klickst Dich durch die Beschreibungen des derzeitigen mapping month may http://discourse.transformap.co/t/read-this-first/281 Es gibt viele Berliner_innen bei TransforMap, die sich sicher mit Dir mal auf einen Kaffee treffen können. @Berliner_innen -> meldet Euch bitte bei Alessa (gern cc an mich). Ansonsten empfehle ich wärmstens, dass Ihr (gern auch Leute von den anderen beteiligten NGOs) das nächste TransforMap Treffen nutzt. Die links hatte ich gerade nochmal rumgeschickt. Vor allem, weil es Sinn macht, gerade auch mit den Leuten zu reden, die von der technischen Seite was verstehen und die sind auch dort! Also, 18./19. Juni in München? Zur Arbeitsweise: Bitte nutzt die Online-Plattformen zur Selbstorganisation. Da können Dir dann auch andere Leute Fragen beantworten! Lieber Gruß Silke PS: es wäre ganz toll, wenn Du von diesem Projekt mal auf der wichtigsten Diskussionsplattform von TransforMap erzählen könntest. Melde Dich dort an und schreibe von der Idee auf Englisch, das gibt unseren Partnern in Europa die Möglichkeit mitzulesen http://discourse.transformap.co/t/join-us/111 Am 18.05.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Alessa Heuser: > Liebe Silke, > > ich habe von verschiedenen Seiten von TransforMap gehört und bin sehr > interessiert zu erfahren wie das Projekt funktioniert. > > Wir sind zur Zeit in ein EU-Projekt mit 26 NGOs (23 EU-Länder) > involviert, in dem es darum geht eine interaktive Karte zu entwickeln, > in der die teilnehmenden NGOs solidarökonomische Initiativen und > Projekte aus ihrem Arbeitsumfeld eintragen können. Die Aufgabe von > INKOTA innerhalb des Projekts ist, 1) das Online-Tool bzw. die Karte > soweit zu entwickeln bis alle NGOs es mit Inhalten bespielen können > sowie 2) das Tool selbst am Ende mit Inhalten zu bespielen und für > INKOTA-Zwecke zu nutzen. > > Es schwebt uns vor, mit einer bereits bestehenden Mapping-Initiative > (open soruce) zusammenzuarbeiten. > > Ich würde mich gern mit dir über TransforMap unterhalten, gerne so bald > wie möglich. Hast du Interesse daran? Wir können uns gern zum > telefonieren verabreden. Wenn du magst, schlag doch ein paar Termine vor. > > Beste Grüße > Alessa > > > -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Betreff: Re: Fwd: [maps] TransforMap goes Global. #15mmm Mapping Month > May and beyond! > Datum: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:52:32 +0200 > Von: Alessa Heuser <heuser(a)inkota.de> > Organisation: Inkota Netzwerk e.V. > An: Christine Pohl <pohl(a)inkota.de> > > >

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TransforMap goes Global. #15mmm Mapping Month May and beyond!
by Silke Helfrich 10 May '15

10 May '15

Dear all, THIS IS TO OPEN A PROCESS THAT, WITH YOUR HELP AND ENTHUSIASM, WILL HOPEFULLY CONVERT INTO A MILESTONE FOR TRANSFORMAP (www.transformap.co) TransforMap goes Global Now, in May 2015, the TransforMap global Testmapping (#15MMM = Mapping Month May) brings together a variety of communities from different parts of the world, who partner with TransforMap and share our vision to meet two goals: -> contribute to the collective mapping of alternative economies and social innovation -> start a feedback process for Transformap. We are not only keen to learn what you think, we need your feedback to move forward together. Please give us feedback about our taxonomy (are there important terms missing?), the tools we offer so far (they will be constantly improved), the communication on TransforMap.co and elsewhere. We've paved the way. But the road is still bumpy, nontheless: the basic tools are there to make your way from your project to a tag on TransforMap. We've prepared various testmapping tools. You find them here: http://discourse.transformap.co/t/which-tools-are-available-for-mapping- But before, you might READ THIS FIRST: http://discourse.transformap.co/t/read-this-first/281 FIND OUT HOW TO START http://discourse.transformap.co/t/15mmm-how-to-start/282 AND HAVE A LOOK AT OUR FAQs month-march/265http://discourse.transformap.co/c/mapping-month-may-2015/faq Mapping Month May is an open, collaborative process. Please share the questions and problems that might arise publicly. This will help us to clarify them for you and for others. It would be tremendously encouraging if You'd become part of our contributors network and engage in the transnational online conversation. Therefore, we cordially invite you to register on http://discourse.transformap.co our main communication forum, resource and knowledge production channel. http://discourse.transformap.co/c/welcome-on-board HOW TO BE IN TOUCH? - contact us on discourse - or ping your regional contact person from the TranforMap team. http://discourse.transformap.co/c/mapping-month-may-2015/regional - or send an e-mail to: collective(a)transformap.co - connect with us on twitter: @transformap The collaboration of many is what makes TransforMap work. It's all about the power of the communities and people involved. Let's make this test-mapping a success in disregard of the bumpy road, Silke Helfrich -- Silke Helfrich www.transformap.co

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Blog about use of maps for urban gardening, CSA, ESS
by Adrien Labaeye 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Hi there, I wanted to share some insights from my field research about maps for the transformation. In the menu of my blog post <https://transitionlab.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/field-report-1-maps-for-csa-…> : - Living Lots in NYC: an open source platform to support the idenfication and use of vacant lots of land for community gardening - Maps of community supported agriculture in France - Geographical mash up of databases around social and solidarity economy https://transitionlab.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/field-report-1-maps-for-csa-… Wishing you a good read. Happy for feedback! -- 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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: request of your community's story :
by Jon Richter 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Dear friends and partners, in the last days we, the TransforMap Community [1], have been eagerly cowriting on an application to the European Commision within their ICT-10-2015 call [2] for "Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation". I would like to invite you to contribute your communities' stories to our application, whose abstract can be found on http://wiki.co-operating.systems Having read that, I have prepared a template for such a story for you at http://wiki.co-operating.systems/wiki/Community-Story-Template You can get back to me anytime, if you have further questions. Sincerely, Jon Richter for co-operating.systems [1] http://discourse.transformap.co [2] scope a) http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h…

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Fwd from Silke: TransforMap Global Mapping Month and update / Taxonomy
by TransforMap collective 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

Dear MMM/TransforMap mailing lists, forwarding a message from Silke sent to global(a)lists.14mmm.org. Due to disclosure of multiple private mail addresses, it sould not be delivered. See below. -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: global post from silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de requires approval Datum: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:10:23 +0100 As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: global(a)lists.14mmm.org From: silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de Subject: Re: TransforMap Global Mapping Month and update / Taxonomy Reason: Too many recipients to the message -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: TransforMap Global Mapping Month and update / Taxonomy Datum: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:09:50 +0100 Von: Silke Helfrich <silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de> ALERT: @transforMappers: If there are mistakes in the following message, please correct me! + at the very end, there is some new information re. the partners for the intl. testmapping ISSUE: WHERE ARE WE AT WITH TRANFORMAP AND THE TESTMAPPING Dear all, first of all: amis québecois, I am so sorry for the delay, I have been involved in too many processes lately, but as far as TransforMap is concerned the reason for the delay in informing You, our international peers and (hopefully) co-mappers, is a really good one: First of all, we've managed to set up sth. like an initial governance structure: http://blog.14mmm.org/transformap-has-a-working-structure-and-its-wild/ That is; we went through an internal process of urgently needed f2f conversations and decision making and are now able to divide the myriad of tasks more swiftly. And secondly: we made a proposal to the European Union within their CHEST project : http://www.chest-project.eu/ Tatataaaa, we were pre-selected, meaning that now everybody is overly busy with preparing the documents for the final selection process, this would help us to finance especially the programming and the coordination work for the next year and beyond. Moreover we have been preparing the test-mapping process and tools + the partnerships to go international, for instance with Shareable in the US. All of us are very aware of the fact that we urgently need some basic information in English, and we will work on that as soon as we get two funding proposals (the one to the EU and another one) off desk. We are already working on it: http://discourse.transformap.co/t/self-description-of-transformap/164 Now; where are we at with the taxonomy and with the testmapping? Taxonomy: We've FINALLY made our decisions about the three most important category-groups: That is: - needs ---> ready for translation into French, Finish and many other languages (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:KartenKarsten/futureMap#Needs_fulf… - mode of interaction ---> ready for translation into French, Finish and many other languages https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:KartenKarsten/futureMap#Mode_of_In… - self-description of the community ----> we made the final decisions, that is: We know know which tribes we wanna start with, but we still need to finish the short descriptions in English (so, it is not yet ready for translation) Here are "the tribes"; https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:KartenKarsten/futureMap#Self-descr… As you can easily see: this is a project of CONVERGENCE; it cannot be otherwise. So, while we work together on TransforMap we enact TAPAs (There Are Plenty of Alternatives) and we network in real life (instead of only talking about the need to network) It is important to note that for TranforMap (not for OSM of course), the self-identification with one of these OR OTHER communities will be mandatory; I can explain this later. But this is the only way to - at the end - generate a global map, where we can make "all commons" visible, or "all solidarity economy projects" or simply "all TAPAs"- more on this later (because this only applies to the TransforMap layer, not for OSM (as we don't control the handling of categories, tags and data on OSM. We are also collecting the so called "Points of Interest", as this is sth. the common mapper (and user) is very interested in. TOOLS: Making the decisions about the taxonomy has been key for programming the testmapping tools, and again... it took us a while to get everything done. But now we have two options. - the first one is to collect data via our TRANSFORTESTIONAIRE: https://docs.google.com/a/getactive.org/forms/d/16LpwkNrL9YtX2-UknMO1M8k0_w… All tags are updated to the current state of the taxonomy! You can use it RIGHT NOW, the only BUT is, that data will be collected and need to be transferred manually to OSM later, but it helps us to get the testmapping done and get feedback on the Taxonomy, - the second is, that our programmers (some magic is in there, I swear you), are about to finish a prototype for the online testmapping (needing a few more days) and that the current state of the taxonomy finally allows to work on the official and user friendly entry mask. So; If you wanna start testmapping right now: GO FOR IT and use our transfortestionaire, If you wanna wait for another tool, bear with us. TESTMAPPING: You might not be surprised that giving the huzzle and buzzle in the whole process we finally decided that we will move the testmapping days to a testmapping month, that is MAY 2015 According to your advice, dear friends in Canada, we suggest to organize testmappings at a few spots, that is: wide and exhaustive testmappings in 5 or 6 cities in different regions/continents instead of a bit of testmapping everywhere. THEREFORE WE NEED YOU SUPPORT! Our ideas for the moment: please focus on a selected place/ city or rural region) USA - Partner: Shareable (please focus on a Canada - Partner: REmix the Commons/ OSM Montreal/ Others -> I guess it will be Montreal FRANCE - Partner: ? - there will be certainly a wonderful opportunity at the Ouishare -Fest AUSTRIA - Partner: OSM Graz/ ELEVATE/ OTHERS: -> Graz GERMANY - Partner: Anstiftung/Ertomis and Others mainly TransforMappers --> Munich and/or Berlin FINLAND - http://www.commons.fi/ -> selected place in Finland The list is open! We now need to start the global conversation about the testmapping and can use our global mmm list for it (the one I am cceing); at the same time we are trying to get some funds for the test-mapping process. PLEASE REGISTER THERE - if you are interested in the process - if you need follow-up information - if you can contribute sth (proposals/ translations/ partnership for testmapping/ whatever idea and resources) If I forgot to respond to any of your questions, I will be happy to do so asap. Please forgive me that I won't re-read and correct my e-mail, but I still have to phone conferences waiting for me tonight :-) Many, many thanks for all the support you've provided so far Silke for the TransforMappers in Germany and Austria > > @Silke : > > Does the Global Mapping Day of Marsh 6th and 7th confirmed ? Do you have > any material we can use to promote and mobilize people there ? Thanks > for your information. > > Best > Fred >

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TransforMap Taxonomy V1.0 ready 2 go 4 global testmap + translations
by Silke Helfrich 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Dear all, finally, after a year of discussions on how the INITIAL TransforMap Taxonomy might look like the "badgers", aka Taxonomy Team of Transformap, proudly present version1.0. of 3 category groups - Needs fulfilled by a community - Self-Description of a community - Mode of interaction (except the items we've put on the watchlist) These (and only these) categories are now ready to be... - presented to the Open Street Map community (Michael and Silke will care for) - translated into other Languages (@Diane; this is a GO! @Ruby if you wish to work on a Finish version, go for it...) - the basis for the global testmapping we are about to launch during the Mapping Month May (mmm) and therefore They are: - the basis for the entry mask Michael Vesely and/or Daniel Janz are about to share with us - as well as the basis for the TransforMap testionnaire, all of you can use https://docs.google.com/a/getactive.org/forms/d/16LpwkNrL9YtX2-UknMO1M8k0_w… Please NOTE: the data is ONLY up to date in our OSM Wiki (NOT in the ethercalc) and it is ONLY UP TO DATE IN ENGLISH, NOT in German. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/TransforMap#Needs_ful… We will soon integrate a few examples as this facilitates the process of beeing accepted by OSM. Any questions regarding the use of the taxonomy, please let me know. The launch of the testmapping will follow soon, I guess. All the best Silke for the badgers @Michael; if I forgot sth. important, please reply simply to this e-mail. @international colleagues: as I am not sure who has subscribed the global mmm list, I've put a few adresses in here, please make sure you subscribe to avoid crosspostings

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Mapping Month May - listing local test mappings
by Adrien Labaeye 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Hi everyone, So we've started our preparations the Mapping Month May! (ie. testing the TransforMap taxonomy by organizing local test mapping) Yes you've noticed, it's been moved from March to May so we can use the editor for the test of our taxonomy model with three categories (needs, self-description of community, modes of interaction). More about those categories here: https://wiki.openstreetmp.aorg/wiki/Proposed_features/TransforMap If you want to start earlier as planned, you can always used our online questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/a/getactive.org/forms/d/16LpwkNrL9YtX2-UknMO1M8k0_w… We are currently in the process of elaborating a proposal for funding with the Full Circle Foundation for the coordination of the Mapping Month. The official is to see by the end of May a test mapping (with or questionnaire or with the in development editor) happening in at least 5 local communities on 3 continents. Here <https://text.allmende.io/p/MappingMonthMay_Local_Events>is* the current list of local test mappings that we would like to see happen.* *Are there some missing? Add your local test mapping there <https://text.allmende.io/p/MappingMonthMay_Local_Events>! *We don't necessarily want so many, we want some who would map around a 100 points (local initiatives) and provide feedback on the taxonomy (categories for local initiatives). There could be some funding to support that, but nothin is sure at the moment. If you have questions, suggestions, log in in our forum platform and post it here: http://discourse.transformap.co/t/mapping-month-may/174 or ping us on twitter @transformap Looking forward! (it's chaotic, please bear with us, we're all doing this on our free time at the moment [?] ) 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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