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François Burra

Open Street Map has officially switched to ODbL - and celebrates with a picnic | Open K... - 1 views

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    Open Street Map has officially switched to Open Data Common's ODbL 1.0
Alexandre Enkerli

Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views

  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
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  • places where Google cannot or does not often go
  • big, largely Western, multinational corporations
  • worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
    • Alexandre Enkerli
       
      Hurray for citizen-driven innovation?
  • awful performance
  • DevelopmentSeed
  • DevelopmentSeed CEO
  • really rich community of people
  • want to map
  • worldwide basemap
  • making it easier
  • competitor
  • famously sophisticated map layers.
  • complicated relationship
  • supporter of open source
  • funded through Google Summer of Code
  • Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
  • undermining Google's geospatial dominance
  • challenge a competitor's core competency
  • weaken the competition
  • grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
  • Open Elections
  • developer-friendly data
  • LocalData
  • research
  • tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods
Alexandre Enkerli

My CodeConf Talk: Your Community Is Your Best Feature | Smarterware - 0 views

  • As an open source leader, you’re like a doctor or a teacher. If you’re doing a good job, then your community needs you less and less.
  • That's the sign of healthy peer collaboration.
  • Likewise, virtual or in-person meetups—like IRC office hours, weekend-long hackfests, all give people a time and date to show up and work on a specific problem.
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  • Convert newcomers into contributors.
  • assertive
  • Instead of thinking from the perspective of “what does the project need?” think about what this person wants.
  • People WANT to belong to your community
  • it's really difficult to play a role
  • complainers
  • strip away the ego and defensiveness
  • Complainers are a unique opportunity.
  • Cast a wide net
  • Homogenous teams turn out homogenous products.
  • Inclusiveness matters.
  • If your team has a limited worldview then your software will as well.
  • A mailing list archive is a lot less inviting than a nicely-formatted blog post
  • how many brand new contributors added something to this release
  • social media douchebags use to chart their follower count
  • democracy platform
  • more folks interested in Gov 2.0 efforts than social media analytics
  • friendliness
  • inclusiveness
  • openness to newcomers
Philippe Huot

Open Source for Humanitarian Action | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 1 views

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    Article on Ushahidi, the Standby Task Force and other crowdmapping initiatives. From SSI Review.
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