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Fwd: [Hubs] Categories of initiatives sub groups
by Franz Nahrada 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Eine Weiterleitung aus der Google Groups der internationalen transition hubs. Wollt Ihr mit ihm Kontakt aufnehmen? Ich hab in den alten mails geblättert und fand Am 25.09.2018 um 22:14 schrieb jon der gartenkärtner: "Seien es Intermapping, Transition Connect, Commons API oder die Versuche unserer französischen Partner die vielfältigen Realitäten gemeinsam abzubulden. Nennenswert sei hier Transiscope.org, welches einen Eindruck davon vermittelt, wohin die Reise gehen kann." ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Hello, The current map used to display the Transition initiatives in France is on Google Map and is only showing the local initiatives but not the different sub groups of each initiative. I would like to create a new map on an open source site including filters on type of groups we have like : food, repair café, bicycle workshop, inner transition, meditation, .... So the need is to have categories and sub-categories. This is also useful to tag articles in web sites or Events (we do it already but with a from scratch categories). My question is to know if somebody has spent time on it to build a categorization that we could use as a good basis to share, enhance and translate ? Amitiés, Jean-Paul Grange - +33 (0) 634 188 782 Le local : [ http://www.set94.org/ ]www.set94.org - Le territorial : [ http://www.val-de-marne-en-transition.org/ ]www.val-de-marne-en-transition.org Le régional : [ http://www.transitionparisidf.fr/ ]www.transitionparisidf.fr - Le national : [ http://www.transitionfrance.fr/ ]www.transitionfrance.fr L'international : [ http://www.transitionnetwork.org ]www.transitionnetwork.org - Le trans-associatif : www.transitioncitoyenne.org La REconomy : [ https://opencollective.com/reconomycop ]https://opencollective.com/reconomycop -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hubs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [ mailto:hubs+unsubscribe@transitionnetwork.org ]hubs+unsubscribe(a)transitionnetwork.org. To post to this group, send email to [ mailto:hubs@transitionnetwork.org ]hubs(a)transitionnetwork.org.

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Karte der Kartierungen: auf dem Weg von TransforMap zu Intermapping
by jon der gartenkärtner 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Lieber Kartierungsfreund:innen. In den letzten Jahren haben wir uns an einer waghalsigen Idee die Zähne ausgebissen: eine Karte zu schaffen welche die verschiedenen kartographischen Abbilder neuer ökonomischer Strömungen zusammenfasst. Das Kalkül war damit eine breite Diskussion über die damit verbundenen Konzepte anfachen zu können. Bis heute ist diese Idee vielen weltweit als TransforMap bekannt, doch die einstige Community erscheint zersplittert und verstreut. Neue Bewegungen machen sich auf, ihre Sichtweisen in Karten zu konsolidieren und die Idee lebt andernorts weiter. Seien es Intermapping, Transition Connect, Commons API oder die Versuche unserer französischen Partner die vielfältigen Realitäten gemeinsam abzubulden. Nennenswert sei hier Transiscope.org, welches einen Eindruck davon vermittelt, wohin die Reise gehen kann. Bei Ecobytes haben wir uns damals bereit erklärt die technische Entwicklung und den Betrieb der Infrastruktur zu betreuen. Leider schien das für viele auch zu bedeuten, dass von uns Kommunikations- und Publikationsaufgaben übernommen würden. Währenddessen brach im Tumult der technischen Herausforderungen der Kontakt mit den eigentlichen Initiatoren der Initiative, und keine übernahm mehr die Verantwortung die uns begegnenden großen Fragen in kleine, von der uninformierten Öffentlichkeit verdauliche Häppchen zu garnieren. Wir werden die technischen Komponenten noch mindestens bis 2020 weiter betreiben, doch grundlegende inhaltliche und strategische Fragen sowie die Weiterentwicklung liegen brach. Hierfür braucht es die Community, überhaupt eine Community, euch!, um sich diesen vielschichtig vernetzten Aufgaben auf mitmenschliche und warmherzige Weise zu widmen. Im Verlauf des Jahres haben wir viele Versuche unternommen wieder Kontakt aufzunehmen. Die Rückmeldungen verblieben jedoch bisweilen vage und unbestimmt. Waren wir nicht gemeinsam gestartet, um uns gegenseitig bei dieser Mammutaufgabe zu unterstützen? Manche mögen die schnellen Erfolge vermissen, andere oft nicht wissen wie sich noch dazu beziehen oder wo sich wieder günstig einsteigen ließe. Ich möchte es hiermit ein letztes Mal versuchen einen Funken beizusteuern der das Feuer wiederentfacht, mit dem wir vor bald einem halben Jahrzehnt gestartet sind. Gegenwärtig erscheinen für die Empfänger:innen dieser Liste zwei Prozesse relevant, auf die ich nur zu gerne hinweise: 1. Eine emanzipatorische Wiederaneignung der TransforMap Idee durch die Initiatorinnen als beispielhaften Akt langfristigen Engagements. 2. Eine aktive Auseinandersetzung mit den vielen Kartierungsinitiativen hier wie dort, welche sich in einem Intermapping Kessel bündeln ließe. Auf https://discourse.transformap.co/ lässt sich sehen, dass noch heute vielfältigen Blickwinkel und Kooperationsperspektiven unter dem Banner unseres Flagschiffes zusammenfließen. Leider scheine ich das Gespräch zu dominieren, noch zu verstehen woran es mangelt. Viele spannende Diskussionen verbergen sich hinter den dortigen Überschriften, doch es gab von Anfang an Verwirrungen darüber, welchen Sprachraum und auch welche Ziele wir adressieren. Da es an inhaltlichen Reaktionen auf Fragen wie "Quo vadis, TransforMap?", oder an Beteiligung an den gemeinsam gestarteten Belangen, sei es in der schlichten, doch wichtigen Form von Vorbereitung von Zusammenkünften, oder der Übernahme von Verantwortung für eine konstante, breit angelegte Außenkommunikation mangelt, spiele ich mit dem Gedanken das TransforMap Discourse stillzulegen und dieses Projekt als gescheitert ad acta zu legen. Vermutlich bin ich ausgebrannt und brauche mal eine Pause, in Angst das währenddessen alles verschwände. Ich handle stets noch in dem Glauben, dass wir im September 2015 gemeinsam beschlossen hatten uns nach Ende der Projektarbeiten wieder zusammenzusetzen. Um uns gegenseitig den Rücken zu stärken, aus den gemachten Fehlern zu lernen und neue, klarere Ziele zu formulieren. Seht ihr das noch genauso? So würde ich mich freuen, wenn die eine oder der andere wieder ins Rampenlicht zurückkehrte, um gemeinsam die mannigfaltigen Perspektiven auseinanderzudröseln und wieder in einen sonstwie gearteten Rythmus des Austausches zu finden. Noch brennt eine kleine Flamme, an vielen Orten wird kartiert und kleinere Grüppchen versuchen sich an gemeinsamen Darstellungen ihrer Crowdmappingdatenschätze. Doch das kohärente Ganze, welches wir uns explizit auf die Fahne geschrieben hatten, lässt sich noch vermissen. Viele Kontakte haben sich über die Jahre gebildet. In der Vorbereitung des Intermappingtreffens in Witzenhausen habe ich bspw. viele persönliche Gespräche mit einzelnen Akteuren im Feld geführt. Dies tat ich aus Fürsorge für die Kartierung der Kartierungen, muss aber gleichwohl feststellen, dass ich den vielen unterschiedlichen Sichtweisen und Bezugspunkten nicht alleine begegnen kann. Gleichzeitig auch die technische Entwicklung mit all ihren Irrungen und Wirrungen im Blick zu behalten ist mir auf Dauer nicht mehr möglich. Waren wir nicht gestartet, um die Überlegenheit und Durchschlagskraft kollektiver Wirtschaftsvormen zu beweisen? Dieses Wissen würde sich meines Erachtens nach sehr gut in einer Selbstreflexion anwenden lassen. Bitte sagt mir, dass ihr noch da seid. Mich verlassen gegenwärtig die letzten Kräfte, und auch die eher internationale Intermapping Community hält sich mit Beiträgen zu einer gemeinsam gestalteten Kartierung eher bedeckt und lässt sich nur schwerlich mobilisieren, da viele mit ihrem Kopf bei eigenen, kleineren und überschaubareren Aufgaben sind. Da unsere selbst gestellte, ehrenvolle Aufgabe der Metakartierung jedoch wichtig und auch löblich ist, wünsche ich mir, dass sie nicht mir nichts, dir nichts im Sande verläuft. Zur Wiederaufnahme der zwei oben genannten Punkte kann ich gegenwärtig nur diese konkreten Einstiegspunkte anbieten: - https://discourse.transformap.co/t/quo-vadis-transformap/1550 - https://discourse.transformap.co/t/collecting-intermapping-communities-late… - https://discourse.transformap.co/t/dates-for-intermapping-weekend-in-berlin… Hochachtungsvoll, auf dem letzten Loch pfeifend, Euer Jon

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TransforMap Treffen im November?
by jon der gartenkärtner 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Liebe TransforMapper, da die Termine und Möglichkeiten rar sind, und sich unsere Kalender schnell füllen, sind wir dabei mit gutem Vorlauf ein Kartiertreffen im November in Berlin vorzubereiten. Würdet ihr gerne an einem solchen Treffen teilnehmen? Wir sind gegenwärtig in Gesprächen mit Wikimedia Berlin, welche wissen wollen, wieviele Gäste zu erwarten wären. Könnt ihr uns trotz Sommerlochs bis 15.08.2018 bescheid geben, ob ihr vorläufig zusagen könnt? Dies geht am einfachsten über den Poll unter: https://discourse.transformap.co/t/calling-for-a-transformap-general-assemb… Besten Dank für eine kurze Berücksichtigung, Jon

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Quo Vadis TransforMap: Einladung zur Neuerfindung
by Silke Helfrich 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hé da! im März 2014 trafen wir uns das erste Mal. Schon nach einem halben Jahr haben wir auf der /Road to Degrowth/ eine beeindruckende TransforMap Performance <https://commons.blog/2014/09/01/there-are-thousands-of-alternatives-we-will…> hingelegt. Auf verschiedenen Plattformen sind wir herumgewuselt. In Potsdam haben wir 2015 tierisch groovige Kreise gegründet, um uns besser zu organisieren. Das diskutieren von Vokabularien hat uns zu Taxonomen gemacht, das technische Verständnis wuchs hier und da. Und dann kamen CHEST, SSEDAS und wie sie nicht alle hießen <https://discourse.transformap.co/c/projects/>, und alles war anders. Mit unserem Segen <https://discourse.transformap.co/t/collecting-supporter-and-partner-logos/3…> brach eine kleine Schar von Entwickler:innen vertrauensvoll und experimentierend auf ins Ungewisse. Oft auf Abwegen der ausgetretenen Pfade. Zu oft ohne die Menschen, die 2014 gemeinsam aufgebrochen sind. In immer neuen Konstellationen stellte sich ein ums andere Mal die Frage, wie nützlich ein /Intermapping/ der vielen /Transformaps/, die auf einer einzigen Karte sichtbar werden—ohne eine einzige Karte zu sein—wohl sein könnte. Nun sind CHEST und SSEDAS vorbei und alles kann wieder anders werden. Es lohnt sich darüber nachzudenken, wohin TransforMap nun gehen wird. Hier ist Einiges aufgeschrieben, teils um unser kollektives Gedächtnis aufzufrischen, teils um die Vielfalt der Pfade anzuzeigen, die wir gehen können. https://discourse.transformap.co/t/quo-vadis-transformap/1550 Nehmt Euch etwas Zeit und teilt Eure Gedanken! #4TransformapReloaded Mit herzlichen Grüßen Silke & Jon Persönliches PS: Ich hatte ich mich auf dieser Liste vor ca 2 Jahren von einer Rolle verabschiedet, die mir bis dahin - durchs schiere Aktivsein - zugefallen war. Ich wollte den SSEDAS-Weg damals nicht gehen, oder pointierter: ein Commons nicht zur Dienstleistung werden lassen, bevor es Kraft aus sich selbst heraus entfaltete. Nun bin ich gespannt, wieviel Kraft sich mit all den Erfahrungen im Gepäck gemeinsam entwickeln lässt.

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Einladung zu einer Kartierwerkstatt zum Sommeranfang
by jon der gartenkärtner 22 May '18

22 May '18

Liebe Kartografinnen und Kartografen. Seit November 2016 war diese E-Mail-Liste still, und umso stiller wurde es um TransforMap. Nachdem die letzten Projektarbeiten nun abgeschlossen sind, bereiten wir die Aufarbeitung und ein 'Knowledge Capture' der letzten vier Jahre vor. Ihr werdet in den nächsten Tagen hier und auf anderen Kanälen davon hören. Bis dahin vertröste ich euch mit einer mehr technisch-vernetzenden Werkstattidee. Im Juni böte sich ein günstiger Zeitpunkt, um in der Mitte Deutschlands, in Witzenhausen, eine Woche die gegenwärtig in Bewegung befindlichen Kartierungsinitiativen unter die Lupe zu nehmen und weiter daran zu feilen, viele viele Karten auf nur einer zu zeigen. Zeit 18.06. - 22.06.2018 Ort Transition Haus Witzenhausen Brückenstraße 20 37213 Witzenhausen Weitere Details finden sich in https://discourse.transformap.co/t/einladung-zu-einer-kartierwerkstatt-zum-… Ich würde mich freuen die eine oder den anderen dann und dort begrüßen zu dürfen. Grüße vom oberschöneweider Spreeufer, 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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Patterns of commoning: EINLADUNG ZU EINEM MUSTERWORKSHOP NACH CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
by Adrien Labaeye 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

*EINLADUNG ZU EINEM MUSTERWORKSHOP NACH CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER* *EINFACHER GEMEINSAM HANDELN* von TransforMap und Silke Helfrich (CSG, Commons Institut) Die Frage ist nicht was Commons sind, sondern wie etwas zum Commons wird. Wir müssen uns daher über das Werden Gedanken machen. Immer wieder neu. Commons herzustellen, zu verteidigen, zu entwickeln und zu schützen ist nicht einfach, weil dies gemeinsam und nicht einsam zu tun ist. Und es ist doppelt schwer mitten im Kapitalismus. Es geht also darum, die Kunst des Commoning zu lernen. Dafür gibt es keine Patentrezepte aber Grundmuster. Grundmuster sind eine Art Gestaltungsprinzipien, die in jeder guten Lösung für gemeinsames Handeln enthalten sind, aber manchmal im Verborgenen liegen. Die Idee dieses Workshops ist, sie explizit machen, auf den Punkt zu bringen und in Sprache zu kleiden, damit sie uns im Alltagt helfen. Muster gemeinsamen Handelns können kommunizierbar machen, was Commoning bedeutet und zu leisten vermag. *Muster des Commoning*, so wie wir sie im Workshop erarbeiten werden, sind konzeptionelle und verbale Werkzeuge. Sie dienen uns jene Probleme zu lösen, die in Commons-Projekten immer wieder auftauchen, ohne sie aus ihrem Kontext zu nehmen oder der Illusion zu verfallen, es gäbe Blaupausen. *Wann?* Donnerstag, den 15.12.'16, 17:00 Uhr beginnend mit der Vorbereitung eines gemeinsamen Abendessens Samstag, den 17.12.'16, 15:00 Uhr nach dem gemeinsamen Aufräumen BITTE KOMPLETT AM WORKSHOP TEILNEHMEN! WENN DAS NICHT MÖGLICH IST, EMPFEHLEN WIR, DEN PLATZ FÜR ANDERE FREIZUMACHEN! *Wo?* Transition Town Haus Witzenhausen/ Hessen (ca 35 km von Kassel) Brückenstr. 20, 37213 Witzenhausen View Map <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.34356/9.85715> *Anreise?* Bahnhof Witzenhausen-Nord *Sprache?* Deutsch, Englisch in den Kleingruppenarbeitsphasen möglich *Was passiert?* Es gibt zwei theoretische Einführungen: die erste in die Mustertheorie nach Christopher Alexander und die zweite in das Schöpfen von Mustern. Zudem erfahrt Ihr etwas über die Logik und Methodik dieses Workshops. Zwischendurch gibt es: *** *gemeinsam Essen, Feiern, Austauschen* *** Inhaltlich widmen wir uns den Problemen, die den Teilnehmenden am meisten unter den Nägeln brennen. Die Problemformulierung *VOR* dem Workshop auf den Punkt zu bringen, wird für alle von Nutzen sein. Wir werden diese Probleme in Kleingruppen mit Hilfe der Alexandrinischen Methode der Entwicklung von Mustern bearbeiten und so – Stück für Stück – *„Muster des Commoning“* formulieren, die sich später zu einer Mustersprache ergänzen. *Wer ist dabei?* Menschen von TransforMap und all jene, die am Thema interessiert sind. Maximal *15 Personen* *Vorkenntnisse?* Nicht nötig. Nur Interesse am Thema und praktische Erfahrungen gemeinsamen Handelns (hat jede_r :-)) *Verpflegung und Anreise:* Selbstorganisiert. Ggf. Umlage nach dem Prinzip 'pool&share' *Unterkunft?* im Transition Haus sowie private Unterkünfte in Witzenhausen (bitte Bedarf anmelden) *Vorbereitung?* Wer Lust und Laune hat: Die Beiträge von Helmut Leitner und Silke Helfrich in „Die Welt der Commons: Muster gemeinsamen Handelns“ http://www.band2.dieweltdercommons.de/index.html Und hier gibt es eine kurze Übersicht zum Thema Mustersprachen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustersprache *Mitbringen?* Interesse, Neugier und Offenheit, Teamgeist, gute Laune und etwas Kleingeld für's Essen *Anm:* Der Workshop selbst kostet nichts. An der Finanzierung der Logistik inkl. eventueller Unterstützung für die Anreise, arbeiten wir noch. *Anmeldung:* Hier: https://co-munity.net/transformap/anmeldung-patterns-of-commoning4 <https://co-munity.net/transformap/anmeldung-patterns-of-commoning> *A C H T U N G!* *ES GIBT NUR 15 PLÄTZE!* Rückfragen gern per mail an Silke.Helfrich(a)commons-institut.de oder hinterlasst einen Hinweis an dieser Stelle. -- Adrien Labaeye PhD researcher, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin +49 176 3810 8605 | Skype ID: adrien.labaeye | Twitter: @alabaeye | transitionlab.de

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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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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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