[Foundation-l] Community maps

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 12:19:44 UTC 2011


The OLPC community is currently using a custom map mashup to help
volunteers and school projects around the world find one another.[1]
It's not hard to skin.
 http://olpcmap.net
 http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/

There was recently a discussion about using this tool on the
cultural-partnerships list.  Are there existing collaborative maps of
Wikimedia groups and projects?  Is this something worth trying?

SJ

[1] For OLPC this provided a happy medium between mapping "all users"
and mapping "large established regional groups", neither of which
captured the energy of the small innovative projects which drove and
defined local communities.  More detail:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2011/01/27/mapping-global-communities/



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