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Beyond Open Technology: The Open Everything Retreat September 3-6

Britt Bravo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:44:34 -0400

Sarah Pullman of Web of Change asked me to let you all know about the upcoming Open Everything Retreat September 3-6 at Hollyhock on Cortes Island in British Columbia.

She writes:

Open Street Map party at Green Map in NYC, June 28-29

GreenMap — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:51:33 -0400

At NetSquared 3, Thomas and Wendy of Green Map System got to know more about the OpenStreetMap project and parties from Mikel Maron & Andrew Turner. This is a kind of wikipedia for maps - a free editable map of the world, and anyone can add roads, bike paths and other geographic data to it. What a useful resource! We thought, let's participate, parties like this could also become a good way to get people involved in our forthcoming Open Green Map, the social mapping website for sustainable communities (preview at http://OpenGreenMap.org). So we are pleased to provide the venue for NYC's first open mapping party, hosted by OpenStreetMap's initiator, Steve Coast, at our global office this weekend! Steve says:

The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization Website

metromapper — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:10:06 -0400

I'd like to announce a new website that I'm starting up called The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization Website, or OMG Standard for short, at www.omgstandard.com. The idea behind it is to have an open forum to discuss and collaborate on how to involve governments to effectively release their public data to communities.

The goals at the moment are to:
1 create an open standard for the structuring of municipal data
2 convince governments it's in their best interest to make the data easily available
3 provide tools to let this happen efficiently

N2Y2: Social Impact Feedback for GINet, Nabuur, GWNL, Social Source Commons

evonne — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:54:46 -0400

Hi, Evonne Heyning here liveblogging from the Social Impact room at N2Y2.

Second Track of the Social Impact Section Panel

Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum

Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute

Alexandra Samuel, Social Signal

Projects Presenting

Genocide Intervention Network: to build out the idea (or brand) of the anti-genocide movement. Give people the idea and space to come together for resources. Content available to everyone regardless of organizational affiliation, use these tools to speak with your own voice: GINet facilitates this dialogue.

Ivan Boothe, Genocide Intervention Network

Packing for N2Y2

evonne — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:58:37 -0400

A moment of personal exoterica before we launch into the N2Y2 events in San Jose; tonight I'm packing and now all of you are privy to my sundries:

* Laptop w/bag (liveblogging from San Jose)
* Camera (to remember what you beautiful people look like)
* Shoes (never forget the good shoes for dancing)
* Clothes (magenta and red, a fiery feeling)
* Books (any suggestions?)
* AMO Game (always connecting the dots)
* Chocolate (the raw cacao powder this time)
* Hand Cream (see Beth Kanter's tips for liveblogging post)
* I heard I love you! card (ask Jean Russell for more info)
* Virtually Delicious (our Second Life design team cards)
* Saving Grace (a gift for a friend)
* Go Green Guide (playa planning 101)
* Delight (for manifesting good cheer)

GiveWell: the world's first transparent grantmaker

Holden — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:44:02 -0400