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.
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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…
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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
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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.
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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>.
