<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Dimitris and Sven for your responses.</div><div><br></div>Jeff:<div><br></div><div>I haven't kept up with the "Is OSGeo relevant" email thread, but the hosting of the OSGeo wiki and other web-functions has always been a big benefit. Without OSGeo's web infrastructure global collective action would not be happening.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible to have OSGeo host something that provides other collaboration online functions? I'm not sure what this looks like. The group I am also working with, PublicLab.org, has this very interesting open access "research notes" structure and they are now working on better ways of searching those posts. But I can envision this for various GeoForAll thematic groups or subgroups, like the social media geocrowdsourcing group.</div><div><br></div><div>One proprietary option is BaseCamp. But that is a 'login' type system rather than an open access system.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there a role for OSGeo here in supporting some kind of collaboration system that goes beyond wikis and email?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Charlie</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Sven Schade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven.schade@jrc.ec.europa.eu" target="_blank">sven.schade@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Carlie, all,<br>
<br>
Some free and open tools and training material on this would be great to<br>
have...<br>
<br>
We did several experiments on this over the last years (see one poster with<br>
that might give a few ideas and a more detailed paper attached). In order to<br>
facilitate these works and move into a wider more structured toolset, a<br>
colleague designed and partially developed a framework to connect existing<br>
libraries (mainly via python). The result is a quite techy and software<br>
engineering piece, that was unfortunately somewhat abandon after he left our<br>
group. If you are interested, I would be happy to get this back to life and<br>
see if it might be of value as a baseline and initial content. Just let me<br>
know!!<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Sven<br>
<br>
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Hi Charlie,<br>
<br>
very interesting idea and thanks for sharing.<br>
I have actually started for some time now a work along these lines that I<br>
will be happy to share. I am putting a very condensed description because I<br>
am off for a trip (to US actually) so my time is very limited and I<br>
apologize to that but if you or anybody else find this interesting please<br>
let me know.<br>
So we have created a platform that process tweets in real time and tries to<br>
identifies important events based on that (like e.g. an earthquake or even a<br>
football game). Part of the work was to explore the tweets we collect<br>
through some spatial analytics lenses trying to understand for example<br>
simple things like the tweets distribution in Greece according to space and<br>
time e.g. within a week. This is quite simple but it is a start. I had to<br>
leave it there because the project funding was limited.<br>
OK, this is preliminary work but the platform works quite OK. I have not<br>
released this yet but the plan is to be of course open source. It is<br>
something that needs some more support to become really operational to a<br>
more professional level but it is there.<br>
<br>
So if of interest please let me know and we can keep the conversation<br>
running, I hope I did not confuse everybody!<br>
<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Dimitris<br>
<br>
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:26:02 -0400<br>
From: Charles Schweik <<a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>><br>
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Subject: [GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media<br>
(e.g., tweets)<br>
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Hi GeoForAll Urban Science thematic,<br>
<br>
1) I have a graduate student interested in this topic. Does anyone know of<br>
any good geocrowdsourcing training literature around how one approaches the<br>
spatial analysis of tweets or other social media posts?<br>
<br>
2) It would be great if we could somehow get operational a communication<br>
platform like the one PublicLab.org has where we could have students post<br>
research notes [1] that other interested people in our group or outside of<br>
the group could monitor. For example, people interested in the above topic<br>
or other topics. Any ideas on how we might do that? I'm copying Jeff McKenna<br>
because this could be something that would reside on the OSGeo web platform.<br>
I think what I am suggesting is a little different than a wiki or a blog...<br>
any ideas on how we might implement such an idea?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
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[1] <a href="http://publiclab.org/research/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://publiclab.org/research/</a><br>
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Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of Environmental<br>
Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration<br>
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Personal website: <a href="http://people.umass.edu/cschweik" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://people.umass.edu/cschweik</a><br>
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Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)<br>
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