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/
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.
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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!
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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!
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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/
