<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6376" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6385">Might be of interest to some of you.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6376" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6376" dir="ltr"><span>Suchith</span></div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6388"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6387"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6386"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6389"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Muki Haklay <m.haklay@ucl.ac.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies <ppgis@dgroups.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 20 November 2014, 5:55<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ppgis] GeoKey Code Sprint - Nov 29th<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6390"><br><div id="yiv9426986496">
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6391">For those of you in London - hope that some of you can join us yourselves as well!<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/geokey-code-sprint-for-participatory-mapping-tickets-14371849589" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6394">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/geokey-code-sprint-for-participatory-mapping-tickets-14371849589</a></div>
<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6395">GeoKey Code Sprint - November 29th, 2014</div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6398"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6397">Flex your Coding Muscles for Participatory Mapping</b></div>
<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6506">We’re holding a code sprint and we’d really like your help! Join us for one day of food and fun, to help us grow GeoKey (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://geokey.org.uk/">http://geokey.org.uk/</a>) —a community platform for participatory mapping.
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6454"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/ExCiteS/geokey">https://github.com/ExCiteS/geokey</a> </div>
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6508">Help us shape the future of open mapping: GeoKey is an open source project and it’s community-led. Help shape the future of participatory mapping by building a mapping platform you would use yourself.
</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">You can control your own geo data: GeoKey is an alternative to commercial mapping platforms. You can help communities to share data openly and securely, while retaining ownership and full control over your
data. </li></ul>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal">WHEN - Saturday the 29th of November, 2014</div>
<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6453">WHERE - University College London, Pearson Building (room TBA)</div>
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6400">9:30 Coffee</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">10:00 Introduction to GeoKey and the coding challenges</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">11:00 Commence Coding!</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6402">13:00 Lunch Break</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">16:00 Show & Tell</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">17:00 Drinks</li></ul>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal">WHO</div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal">Developers or coders interested in: </div>
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Open mapping</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Geolocation databases</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Community project development</li></ul>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6403">WHAT</div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal">Participatory mapping is mapping done by local communities, who make use of web tools to collect and visualise geographic information. It has been used to support decision making and local activism. </div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6450">GeoKey is a platform for participatory mapping that provides a web-based infrastructure to collect, share and discuss local knowledge. You can use it to set up your own mapping project with your community and to collect, visualise and analyse
data using the tools of your choice.</div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal">We just released version 0.2, which is the first official release, and provides the following key features:</div>
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Set up up your data structures:
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6448">You decide what data your community should collect by setting up categories and attributes.</li></ul>
<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6406">Decide who can access, contribute and moderate data:
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6404">Use user groups and data groupings — a predefined subset of all data contributed to the project — to define, which users can access, contribute and moderate data.</li></ul>
</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Add media to your contributions:
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Enrich your contributions by uploading photos and videos to each of your contributions.</li></ul>
</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Discuss:
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Comments on each contribution allow you and your community to discuss observations you have made.</li></ul>
</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Connect your app using our API:
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Use our public REST API to build and connect applications for data collection, analysis and visualisation.</li></ul>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6447">CODE SPRINT WISH LIST</div>
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<li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6408">Integration with Twitter: Twitter is a widely used way to share information about your current whereabouts. We want to enable GeoKey to read and post data from and to Twitter. Using a special Twitter handle
for each participatory mapping project, Twitter users should be able to tweet their experiences to GeoKey. Vice versa, GeoKey should be able to tweet a link to one of their contributions.</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="">Data import/export: Means to import and export data set from and to various widely used data formats is a crucial factor for the success of open data projects. GeoKey should be able to import and export
data into CSV, KML, XML or similar.</li><li class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6446">Activity feeds: Contributors, moderators and project administrators want to know what happened in their projects recently. Let's provide them with an overview of everything that happened since their last
login: New contributions, discussions and uploaded media.</li></ul>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6410">GITHUB</div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal">You can find us on GitHub at:</div>
<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6443"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/ExCiteS/geokey" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6442">https://github.com/ExCiteS/geokey</a> </div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6411">As soon as you’re ready to start contributing, please fork us on GitHub and work from your fork.</div>
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6441">When you’re ready to let us know about all the wonderful new features you’ve added, issue a pull request.
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<div class="yiv9426986496MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6440">For those of you who are new to GitHub, you can find step-by-step instructions here:
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416470378171_6439">https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/</a></div>
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