[ELECTRON] Jo Walsh meeting

[Bob]

Hi Jo
Yeah the whole mapping thing is getting exciting. I use Google because I 
don't have the time to spend working on open source code and stuff, I would 
like to very much, but I'm not wired up as it were and would need some 
intensive training to get me going:)

I have been to a few of the meet ups Tom has organised and listening to 
Open Street Mappers the potential is vast. Andy Whightman (Who owns 
Scotland) complains about access to "public funded research data" costing a 
fortune, and his latest book could have contained much more information had 
the data funded by the citizens been made available to them - Also dealing 
with land reform, maps come into it a lot and the use of OS maps become 
prohibitive to. Sorry I you know all this, I am just kind of outlining ways 
I could spend more time on mapping and learning my way around it.

I work a lot on common good issues, and in the process of identifying and 
restoring Scotland's common good (and the worlds) it makes perfect sense 
that the map that delineates where it can be found is built on by and for 
the common good.

I think a lot of "Open Source" could be open to more new people if it were 
connected to ideas that were relevant to people. The interesting thing 
about mapping is you have to get out and about which is a big plus so 
anything that encourages folk to do this interests me. I look forward to 
your visit. Ch Bob

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On 29/04/2011 06:53, Jo Walsh wrote:
> Hello! Thanks for the intro Simon.
>
> I have done mostly geodata things in the intervening years since
> node.london/UO, though I am inching out of it in the direction of trying to
> shake up academic publishing a bit.
>
> The things bugging me at the moment are reliance on Google Maps even by
> people who are otherwise all about open source and open data - thus wanting
> to run this workshop, which JISC is kindly offering financial support for if
> we can figure out how to spend it. Also trying to collect and figure out
> "business models" that will support open data.
>
> Been in Edinburgh a couple of years now but am hardly ever in Glasgow but
> would happily change that. Visiting May 17th to meet folks at the Scottish
> Place Name Survey, so could drop by 4 or 5 ish...
>
> On 27 Apr 2011 09:48, "Simon Yuill"<simon at lipparosa.org>  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Jo Walsh - who is organising the mapping workshop - has offered to meet
> with Electron Club members as she is intersted in gettign to know people
> better. She has suggested late afternoon/early evening on May 17th.
>
> Aside from being involved in mapping as a researcher at Edinburgh
> Univesrity she is also involved in things such as the Open Knowledge
> Foundation and was previously part of the World Summit on Free
> Information Infrastructures and NODE.London for which she co-edited the
> 'Media Mutandis' book with Marina Vishmidt. NODE.London was/is a network
> of digital arts and community media groups in London with a strong
> emphasis on FLOSS and open organisation, including groups such as the
> University of Openness. In short, I think she has a lot of interesting
> background that would be relevant to a number of Electron Club members.
>
> A few URLS:
>
> http://www.okfn.org
>
> http://nodel.org
>
> http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com
>
>
> I think she has signed up to this list so people can mail her through here.
>
>
> best wishes
> Si
>
>
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