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FLOfarm is a 200-acre tree-farm in Greenland, PA. It can be reached by taking the Metro North train to Port Jervis and then driving west for approximately 30 minutes.
The land has a hunting cabin and the foundation for a farmhouse. There are a number of roads, firepits, fields, and a bog. A river runs around and through the land, with a lovely waterfall at it's south east corner.
FLOfarm Meeting: Saturday, January 8, 2011
Goals/Visions
- Arts and Crafts Center
- Open Source Fabrication Laboratory
- Content
- Documentation
- Perma/Vermiculture and Plant Nursery
- Land for LARPing
- Experimental Architecture
- Yoga, Wellness and Healing Space
- Residency program for people working on mid-long term projects
- Local food kitchen and CSA
- Farmland
- Classes
- Media Studio
Possible Collaborators
Permaculture folks
OSE community
window farmers
greenbustour.com
jordan schacter
Revenerds Jackson of the Brooklyn Rescue Mission
http://www.plovgh.com/index.html
Locals
Red Earth Farm "Red Earth Farm is a family-owned and operated farm dedicated to bringing the freshest chemical-free produce to your table." 1025 Red Dale Road Orwigsburg, PA 17961:: 570.943.3460
PA Renewable Energy Festival "Our goal is to inform and educate ourselves and the public on renewable energy production, energy efficiency, and sustainable living through meetings, workshops, educational materials, and energy fairs."
Journey's End Farm "Journey's End Farm is a PA certified organic farm located in northeastern Pennsylvania just outside the village of Sterling. Driving time is approximately 2-3 hours from both New York City Philadelphia and approximately 4.5 hours from Washington, D.C."
http://www.marshall-machinery.com/rentals.html
LARPers
Wyvern Rising is a LARPing community in Conyngham, PA.
The Society for Creative Anachronism is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Our "Known World" consists of 19 kingdoms, with over 30,000 members residing in countries around the world. Participants, dressed in clothing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, attend events which may feature tournaments, arts exhibits, classes, workshops, dancing, feasts, and more. Our "royalty" hold courts at which they recognize and honor members for their contributions to the group.
Similar Spaces
"Radical Simplicity: Living Car-Free and Off The Grid at the Possibility Alliance"
"Family Survives as Minimalists" about the Possibility Alliance.
Building Resources
Open Architecture Network has hundreds of open sourced building designs and we can add our own. Check out this 25 min presentation by the founder.
http://www.simondale.net/house/gallery.htm
Currency
Land valuation metrics
- Average/Square
Calculate current and potential production value/acre/year. Create acre currency redeemable for one year of land production. Cultivate the land to make the currency more valuable.
Artifacts
http://www.anuvar.org/flofarm/game.html
Partners
Hallenprojekt.de is "the Coworking network for digital workers and digital places. connecting coworkers – and coworking spaces."
Teammates
Jacob of Seattle, US
Jeannine of Oosterhout, Netherlands. "For work such as organization and communication of all kinds, just ask me."
Devin of New York, NY
Kevin Ciesielski of Milwaukee, WI. "I have 5 years of drupal experience and would love to help with this. and frankly given the requirements, it would not take too long to proof of concept the idea."
Assets
OpenCoworking.org URL
Open Questions
What technologies are gonna use?
Important Dates
Mission Statement
Jeannine:
The mission for creating this database is to produce a sustainable, neutral, dynamic resource for coworking spaces around the world.
Principal goals are:
1. Assembly, integration and distribution of data on coworking spaces
2. Public outreach - communicate to the coworking community and to the public the nature and development of coworking in its many forms and guises
3.Resource outreach - Provide a fundamental resource for the broader coworking community and a framework for maintaining contact with the development of coworking.
Devin
I think the first step to create a mission is to define what qualifies as a "coworking space" in a format that enable anyone to quickly and easily evaluate whether a space should be included. Personally, I'm an advocate of an inclusive definition that extends into hacker/maker spaces and some community/shared office spaces, artist studios, etc.
The technical portion of the mission should explain the two important parts of the database: (1) it's "neutral, sustainable and dynamic" with basic information about as many 'coworking' spaces as possible and (2) there's an API that enables developers to use the database to create web applications that fulfill the communities' needs.
We should also keep in mind what information we'd like to have about each space, what applications we'd like to see built using that data and how we can collect this data as easily as possible.
Resources
Defining hackerspaces in relation to coworking.
What is OpenCoworking?
OpenCoworking is a project to create an open library for all the coworking data that people love to share! Help us define the project further. Help us [define coworking].
Essential Info
- Space Directories
- Database Project
- Open Space Handbook
- Resource Library
Participate through our Project Dashboard.
Notes - Devin, Jacob, Erik - 1/11/11
Objective
Create an independent, neutral, sustainable and extensible database of coworking spaces that upholds the values of the free/libre/open source movement while providing hooks and APIs that enables developers and entrepreneurs to create rich functionality for the coworking community without having to worry about sourcing their own data.
Information site: OpenCoworking.org.
OpenCoworking Technical Specification
List of Possible OpenCoworking Interfaces
Milestones
I. Introducing OpenCoworking
1. Deploy wiki on opencoworking.org/wiki
2. Outline new types of participation
3. Explain OpenCoworking to CoworkingDB Google Group and discuss.
4. Change name of Group, introduce to Coworking Google Group.
II. March 10: Coworking Unconference
1. Statement of Intention
2. OpenCoworking.org explanatory website w. copy, design and CRM functionality.
3. Outline technology plan and core team
4. Receive a Fiscal Sponsorship from a nonprofit
5. Recruit a Board of Advisers
Questions
How do we define a "coworking" space?
Defining hackerspaces in relation to coworking.
Partners
Individuals
Jacob of Seattle, US
Jeannine of Oosterhout, Netherlands. "For work such as organization and communication of all kinds, just ask me."
Devin of New York, NY
Kevin of Milwaukee, WI. "I have 5 years of drupal experience and would love to help with this. and frankly given the requirements, it would not take too long to proof of concept the idea."
Cadu of Rio, Brazil
Communities
Coworking Wiki has 2800 users, 10-20 requests/day with 60% real people, 500 hits/day.
Coworking Google Group, Linked In Group and Facebook Group reach abou 3000+ members
Attendees of Coworking Europe Conference
Opportunities to organize Dutch, British and Brazilian spaces.
Fiscal
Nonprofit Fiscal Sponsors: School Factory
Potential Corporate Sponsors: Intuit, Steelcase, Pearsons
Promotion
BALLE
ZipCar
Transition USA
Content
Emergent Research monitors the growth of the movement.
DeskMag is "the magazine about the new places we work, how they look, how they function, how they could be improved and how we work in them. We especially focus on workspaces which are home to the new breed of independent workers, such as coworking spaces, private shared studios and executive offices."
Technical
WalkScore
GreenMaps
Cobot is "the one tool you need to run your coworking space."
Notes
Jeannine
The mission for creating this database is to produce a sustainable, neutral, dynamic resource for coworking spaces around the world.
Principal goals are:
1. Assembly, integration and distribution of data on coworking spaces
2. Public outreach - communicate to the coworking community and to the public the nature and development of coworking in its many forms and guises
3.Resource outreach - Provide a fundamental resource for the broader coworking community and a framework for maintaining contact with the development of coworking.
Devin
I think the first step to create a mission is to define what qualifies as a "coworking space" in a format that enable anyone to quickly and easily evaluate whether a space should be included. Personally, I'm an advocate of an inclusive definition that extends into hacker/maker spaces and some community/shared office spaces, artist studios, etc.
The technical portion of the mission should explain the two important parts of the database: (1) it's "neutral, sustainable and dynamic" with basic information about as many 'coworking' spaces as possible and (2) there's an API that enables developers to use the database to create web applications that fulfill the communities' needs.
We should also keep in mind what information we'd like to have about each space, what applications we'd like to see built using that data and how we can collect this data as easily as possible.
Interfaces
http://wiki.coworking.com/Directory
http://wiki.coworking.com/CoworkingVisa
http://SharedBusinessSpace.com
http://www.listphile.com/Coworking/
The software in our recommended bundles consists only of programs we've used and consider exceptional, but there is a mindblowing amount of free/libre/open source software solutions available, and we suggest you try out lots of them! Wikipedia has an exhaustive list of free and open source software packages. You can also find and download most FLO software solutions at SourceForge and Ohloh. You can find FLO alternatives to popular commercial software products using OSAlt and AlternativeTo.
Standard Users
We suggest using the Ubuntu operating system, Firefox for web browsing, Libre Office (Microsoft Office alternative) for documents, presentations and spreadsheet GIMP (Adobe Photoshop alternative) for image manipulation, and Inkscape (Adobe Illustrator alternative) for vector graphics.
For the Web
Wordpress is a terrific solutions for individual and group blogging. We recommend Joomla for websites that require a more extendable content management system (CMS) and Drupal for users with more technological expertise.
For simple email campaign management, we suggest PHPList and CiviCRM for enterprise-level constituent relationship management.
List of Software
Ubuntu is a Linux operating system for personal computers, netbooks and servers.
Firefox is the world's most popular web browser.
Libre Office is a replacement for the Microsoft Office Suite with document, presentation, spreadsheet, database and more solutions, all in one integrated package.
Thunderbird is an email management system equivalent to Apple's Mail.
GIMP is a an image manipulation program equivalent to Adobe Photoshop.
Inkscape is a vector graphics program equivalent to Adobe Illustrator
Blender is a 3D content creation suite.
Wordpress is best for blogs and content focused websites.
Joomla is more expendable content management system (CMS) than Wordpress and easier to use than Drupal.
Drupal is a more flexible CMS than Joomla but requires more highly skilled work to effectively deploy.
CiviCRM is a powerful constituent relationship management system.
PHPList is the world's most popular email campaign management application.
FLOecology.org Architecture
People
- Community: JomSocial
- Experts: K2 user pages
Places
- Profiles: GreenMap
- News Feeds: RSS2Content
Projects
- K2 Categories
- BEEx Clusters (eventually)
Participate
- Updates: Newletter
- Join: Community
- Support: BEEx
- Volunteer: Opportunity Feed(?)
Jomsocial Profile Types
- Standard Profile
- Name
- Location
- Profile URL -
- About Me -
- Dream Project -
- Talk to Me About -
- What makes you most upset? -
- What makes you happiest? -
- Subject Matter Experts are people interested in contributing their specialized skills to the community.
- Professional Skill
- Experience (URL Acceptable)
- Level of Interest
- Other links*
- Space Owners are people interested in contributing their physical space to the community.
- Address
- Space Type
- Useful Features
- Level of Interest
- Other links*
- Fabricators are people interested in building FLŒcology tools.
- Specific Skills
- Address
- Free Hours/Week
- Pay for your own raw materials?
- Artists/Craftspeople want to use FLŒcology tools to engage in arts and crafts projects.
- Type of Art and/or Crafts (checklist)
- What materials do you use?
- What tools do you need?
- Can you finance your own tools/materials?
- Would you like to build your own tools?
- Location
- Retreat
- Contributors want to give their time and unique skill set to advance the FLŒcology movement.
- What types of projects would you like to participate in? (Checklist)
- How can you help us?
- True Fans want to give their money and social support to FLŒcology member's projects.
- How much social support can you give?
- How much financial support can you give?
- What types of projects would you most like to support?
- Non-English Speakers
Michael Zick Doherty: OpenRTMS is a FLO Mobile Sensor Solution that enables people to connect a standard sensor to an Arduino device that sends data to an Android phone that can upload it to an online database.
Niholay Georgiec: articulates Open Source Ecology in a very organized, clear way.
Miquel Torres + Charles Collins on FreeCAD.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openmanufacturing/dflXQm7uaaI
http://maitreyal3c.com/Home.html
http://cotidianosensitivo.info/blog/
FLOecology.org Architecture
People
- Community: JomSocial
- Experts: K2 user pages
Places
- Profiles: GreenMap
- News Feeds: RSS2Content
Projects
- K2 Categories
- BEEx Clusters (eventually)
Participate
- Updates: Newletter
- Join: Community
- Support: BEEx
- Volunteer: Opportunity Feed(?)
Jomsocial Profile Types
- Standard Profile
- Name
- Location
- Profile URL -
- About Me -
- Dream Project -
- Talk to Me About -
- What makes you most upset? -
- What makes you happiest? -
- Subject Matter Experts are people interested in contributing their specialized skills to the community.
- Professional Skill
- Experience (URL Acceptable)
- Level of Interest
- Other links*
- Space Owners are people interested in contributing their physical space to the community.
- Address
- Space Type
- Useful Features
- Level of Interest
- Other links*
- Fabricators are people interested in building FLŒcology tools.
- Specific Skills
- Address
- Free Hours/Week
- Pay for your own raw materials?
- Artists/Craftspeople want to use FLŒcology tools to engage in arts and crafts projects.
- Type of Art and/or Crafts (checklist)
- What materials do you use?
- What tools do you need?
- Can you finance your own tools/materials?
- Would you like to build your own tools?
- Location
- Retreat
- Contributors want to give their time and unique skill set to advance the FLŒcology movement.
- What types of projects would you like to participate in? (Checklist)
- How can you help us?
- True Fans want to give their money and social support to FLŒcology member's projects.
- How much social support can you give?
- How much financial support can you give?
- What types of projects would you most like to support?
- Non-English Speakers
Michael Zick Doherty: OpenRTMS is a FLO Mobile Sensor Solution that enables people to connect a standard sensor to an Arduino device that sends data to an Android phone that can upload it to an online database.
Niholay Georgiec: articulates Open Source Ecology in a very organized, clear way.
Miquel Torres + Charles Collins on FreeCAD.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openmanufacturing/dflXQm7uaaI
http://maitreyal3c.com/Home.html
http://cotidianosensitivo.info/blog/
FLOecology.org Architecture
People
- Community: JomSocial
- Experts: K2 user pages
Places
- Profiles: GreenMap
- News Feeds: RSS2Content
Projects
- K2 Categories
- BEEx Clusters (eventually)
Participate
- Updates: Newletter
- Join: Community
- Support: BEEx
- Volunteer: Opportunity Feed(?)
Jomsocial Profile Types
- Standard Profile
- Name
- Location
- Profile URL -
- About Me -
- Dream Project -
- Talk to Me About -
- What makes you most upset? -
- What makes you happiest? -
- Subject Matter Experts are people interested in contributing their specialized skills to the community.
- Professional Skill
- Experience (URL Acceptable)
- Level of Interest
- Other links*
- Space Owners are people interested in contributing their physical space to the community.
- Address
- Space Type
- Useful Features
- Level of Interest
- Other links*
- Fabricators are people interested in building FLŒcology tools.
- Specific Skills
- Address
- Free Hours/Week
- Pay for your own raw materials?
- Artists/Craftspeople want to use FLŒcology tools to engage in arts and crafts projects.
- Type of Art and/or Crafts (checklist)
- What materials do you use?
- What tools do you need?
- Can you finance your own tools/materials?
- Would you like to build your own tools?
- Location
- Retreat
- Contributors want to give their time and unique skill set to advance the FLŒcology movement.
- What types of projects would you like to participate in? (Checklist)
- How can you help us?
- True Fans want to give their money and social support to FLŒcology member's projects.
- How much social support can you give?
- How much financial support can you give?
- What types of projects would you most like to support?
- Non-English Speakers
Starting a Coworking Space
If you're planning on starting a space or just want to see some coworking resources, check out:
- The productive conversation taking place on the Coworking Google Group. One of our interns cataloged all the topics discussed in 2000+ posts on this group - you can view her spreadsheet here or download it from our website. Our intern also produced the OS Handbook, a synthesis of knowledge she gleaned from her research.
- The relatively unorganized resources at the coworking wiki.
- Polished resources about starting a space from the Center for Social Innovation and Cohere Coworking.
- A Coworking Financial Model that helps people create a business plan for their space.
If you're seriously considering opening a coworking or hacker/maker space, we suggest contacting the School Factory. They'll provide you a wide range of support, including a fiscal sponsorship so you can raise tax free money through them, consulting services and exposure to some of the coolest people in the collaborative space movement.
FLOERs
Collaboration Tools and Techniques
The Sarapis Foundation has developed a practice for using FLO tools and techniques that will hopefully enable us to communicate and collaborate more effectively, amongst ourselves and our partners.
Communication
Email is the most widely used online communication technology among people of all technical skill levels. We recommend that organizations use email lists as much as possible because they are (1) more effective way than cc’ing to communicate with multiple people, (2) new email lists are easy to create and (3) email list archives can be made accessible to the public.
Tools
- Mailman is a FLO email listserve management tools.
- Google Groups are a hosted option.
Social media is an extremely popular way to communicate with people and, we believe, an appropriate place to use proprietary solutions while open source projects like Diaspora and Status.net mature. There's a tremendous amount of content on the web about effective use of social media. We suggest looking around.
Techniques
Every discrete organization project should have it’s own email list, and every email list should have at least one person who is responsible for reading every message in the list and adding relevant information from these messages into the organization’s documentation resource.
Documentation
“Wiki” means easy in Hawaiian and has become the term describing easy collaborative document editing platforms. Wiki’s democratize the process of documentation, lowering the barriers of entry for contributors while providing highly functional version controls so errors can be easily tracked and fixed.
Tools
- MediaWiki is the most widely used FLO wiki platform and is used by Wikipedia.
Techniques
Every wiki should have at least three sections:
- Email list hightlights: aggregates the important points from the email list conversations.
- Research repository that develops resources useful to members of the organization.
- An unstructured area for document collaboration
- (optional) Project pages that outline tasks and milestones for the organization.
Web Platform
Content management systems (CMS) allow people to build and maintain content driven websites without having to use computer code. If you can use a word processor, you can use use any of the world’s most popular FLO content management systems. These systems have a large, stable development community and plug-in architectures that enable the CMS’s functionality to be extended in a wide variety of ways.
Tools
- Wordpress is the world’s most popular CMS platform. It’s designed for blogs but it’s features can be extended.
- Joomla is a popular CMS system that is more polished but less dynamic than Drupal.
- Drupal is the most popular CMS for PHP developers so it’s the most dynamic and extensible.
Techniques
At the very least, an organization’s website should publish a regular digest of the activity taking place within the organization accessible via the website’s RSS feed. RSS feeds allow other services to “syndicate” your organization’s content. For example, if someone wanted to subscribe to updates from an organization, they could add the organization’s RSS feed to their feed reader or use a simple widget on an organization’s site to receive automatic email updates containing the digests contents. Additionally, fans, partners and community news outlets could add the organization’s feeds to their own website. RSS will become increasingly important as we weave feeds together to create a real time picture of progress within certain organization verticals. Beyond RSS updates, organizations should post basic information on their site. Read more about “principals of organization website information architecture”.
Constituent Relationship Management
Tools
Every organization should have a system for accepting donations, tracking donor activity and communicating with their community through email and direct mail if necessary.
We recommend:
- CiviCRM is a FLO constituent relationship management system (CRM) designed specifically for organization and community service organizations that integrate with Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. There are easy to deploy plug-ins for event ticketing, case management, fundraising, email marketing, reporting, and more.
- PHPlist is a simple email marketing and newsletters application.
Techniques
CiviCRM has a tremendous amount of features and there are many great resources about how to use many of them. One important feature set is the ability to categorize people in different ways. CiviCRM has three ways to do this: (1) groups, (2) tags, (3) fields. Groups are directly connected to CiviCRM’s emailing function, so you’d create groups for all your different email newsletters and assign people to the groups from which they’d like to receive correspondence. There is no limit to the amount of groups of which a person can be a part. You can also assign people tags which enable you to sort people using any terminology you like. For example, one could search a group for people who have the tags ‘volunteer’ ‘gardening’ to find volunteers who’d be interested in gardening. You can also add your own fields to people’s profiles, allow you to add whatever information you’d like. The options are truly endless.
Documentation
CiviCRM
Importing Contacts into CiviCRM
There are two ways to input contacts into CiviCRM.
a. Adding contacts through the CiviCRM application
b. Placing your contacts into a spreadsheet and then importing the spreadsheet into CiviCRM.
Add contacts through the CiviCRM application:
1. Log into your CiviCRM. If you're using Drupal, this requires logging into your Drupal site and then clicking a button in your navigation menu titled 'CiviCRM'.
2. Find the CiviCRM navigation bar. It's probably on the top of your screen. It's buttons include: 'Home', 'Search', 'Contacts'... etc.
3. Click on the 'Contacts' button and a drop down menu will appear. Click on "New Individual."
4. Fill out as many fields as you want. You'll have an opportunity to add groups and tags to contacts later.
5. Click 'Save'
Congratulations! You just created your first contact.
Adding Contacts with a Spreadsheet
If you have more than 20 contacts to add to CiviCRM, you will probably save time by putting your contacts into a spreadsheet and then uploading that spreadsheet into your CiviCRM system. The first step is to start with a spreadsheet that is formatted to be imported into CiviCRM. You can download one here or you can create your own by following these steps:
1. Click 'Search' on top of your CiviCRM navigation menu and click 'Find Contacts.'
2. Don't fill out the fields, click 'search.'
3. You should have a list of the contacts in your CiviCRM system. Select them all, click on the drop down menu, select 'export' and click 'go.'
4. Select 'Export PRIMARY fields' and click continue. The system will download your export file.
5. Open the file with your computer's spreadsheet program. We'll assume it's "LibreOffice Calc."
6. Once LibreOffice has booted up, it will give you a 'Text Import" window. BEFORE you click 'OK' you MUST click the check box entitled 'Seperated by: Comma" under the 'Seperator options' section. Once you've clicked that box, click 'OK'. The spreadsheet should open.
7. Look at the top of the spreadsheet's window. If it says 'read only' you need to 'Save As' the spreadsheet to your computer.
Now you can enter information into the appropriate cells on your spreadsheet. You do not need to fill out all the cells. In fact, you can delete the columns you don't want to fill in. We suggest deleting the everything before 'First Name' and everything between 'Birth Date' and 'Current Employer' to make life simpler.
Now it's time to import your full, nicely formatted spreadsheet into your CiviCRM. Make sure you have deleted the contacts you had initially imported and make sure your second row is filled with information.
1. Save your file in a CVS format. This means the file's title will end with .csv.
2. Go to your CiviCRM, click the 'Contacts' menu item and click 'Import Contacts.'
3. Select your file in the Upload CSV File field.
4. Does your first row contains headers and not contact information? If so, click the first check box.
5. Leave everything else as it is and click 'Continue.'
6. In this area you need to match your 'Column Names' on the left with the 'matching CiviCRM field' on the right.
- If your import rows are blank, it's because you first few rows don't have content. Click 'Previous', go back to your spreadsheet, delete the blank rows on top of your spreadsheet, save and reimport the sheet.
- Do not map 'current employers' because it will cause an error.
- If you filled out a field that doesn't have a corresponding CiviCRM field and still want to import it, consider mapping it to the 'Note' field.
7. If you plan to add more contacts in the future with the same spreadsheet format, click 'save this field mapping.' Click 'Continue' 8. Make sure you're importing the same amount of rows that you have in your spreadsheet (minus the column headers).
9. Add these contacts to the appropriate groups and tags. Click 'Import Now.' Click 'Ok'.
10. If an error appears, check to make sure that your contacts haven't imported anyway before trying again. Imported contacts don't always show up in the 'recent items' feed on the left of your CiviCRM so make sure to search for a contact that you imported to see if everything works. Sometimes it works, even if it says it didn't. :)
Supporting Files
References
CiviCRM.org: Exporting Data and Importing Data.
FlossManuals.net: Importing Data into CiviCRM
Projects
MetaGovernment Project "The objective of the Metagovernment project is to enable individuals to be much more involved in their own governance, instead of relying on career politicians to take care of the important decisions in their life."
- Related Projects is a great list of projects.
Federal Open Source Technology Score Card from Open Source for America.
IT Dashboard: The IT Dashboard is a website enabling federal agencies, industry, the general public and other stakeholders to view details of federal information technology investments -
FedSpace: FedSpace is a secure intranet and collaboration workspace for Federal employees and contractors.
Digitalizer: Danish Approach to FedSpace.
OpenCongress: Track bills, votes, people in Congress.
LittleSis: Free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
POPvox "bridges the gap between the input the public wants to provide and the information Members of Congress want and need to receive."
MetaVid: "The Open Video archive of the US Congress"
MapLight "Connect the Dots between Money and Votes"
Follow the Money "The Nation's Most Complete Resource for Information on Money in State Politics"
Open Secrets "OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government."
GovTrack Tracking Congress
Public=Online "“Government transparency is critical to creating a better democracy, and of highest importance in how I cast my vote. I pledge, through my sustained engagement, to hold public officials accountable for being open and transparent.”
CivicCommons "Sharing technolog for the public good."
GovHub open source repository for government.
Public.Resource.org makes bulk information from the government available like codes and court decisions.
The Open State Project collects and makes available data about state legislative activities, including bill summaries, votes, sponsorships, legislators, and committees.
"A ChangeCamp is a creative face-to-face gathering that is citizen-led, non-partisan and social web enabled
The First Earth Battalion Field Manual articulates a way for the US military to open itself up.
MuckRock is a website that helps you file, track, appeal, and eventually publish FOIA'd documents, all through a single web interface.
eDemocracy "We harness the power of online tools to support participation in public life, strengthen communities, and build democracy."
FutureGov is a consultancy and social innovation incubator helping to shape the future of government. We specialize in new media consultancy for government and social innovation. We also run campaigns and events.
States
CivicApps Portland App Contest
New York State Executive Order
Organizations
Sunlight Foundation has a tremendous amount of projects with which to collaboration.
Participatory Politics Foundation is a New York based nonprofit that built OpenCongress and is working on a similar application for open city and state governments.
Office of DC CTO is a primary mover in the open city government movement.
Code for America "Connecting city governments and Web 2.0 talent."
OpenPlans is a New York based nonprofit that helped create Open311 and other technology intensive open government projects.
Knowledge as Power: "KAP allows you to track legislation, communicate with lawmakers, and impact the laws of your state – it's quick, easy, and timely."
Open Source for America is a technology industry open source advocacy coalition.
GovLoop is a social network geared towards government employees with over 35,000+ members.
ProPublica is an honest nonprofit news organization that loves analyzing open government data.
Open Forum Foundation "are facilitators, working with government and technologists to ensure the future of government is in responsiveness."
Open Identity Exchange "The goal of OIX is to build trust in the exchange of identity credentials online."
Open Data Foundation "provides a place where the members of different communities can come together and work on the alignment of technology standards and software tools which will facilitate visibility and re-use of data at all levels of the statistical information chain. By promoting automated access to statistical data and metadata in this way, better decision-making becomes possible in many fields of research and policy-making."
Open Data Commons "is the home of a set of legal ‘tools’ to help you provide and use open data."
Technology Firms
Development Seed DC - Drupal, creators of Open Atrium, a Drupal based project management system being run on GaryJohnson2012.com.
Phase Two Technology: DC - Drupal, creators of OpenPublic, a Drupal CMS distribution for federal government projects.
Bridge City Studio Portland - Drupal has a nice resources page.
CivicActions Berkeley - Drupal, CiviCRM constituent relationship management system of Drupal and Joomla.
Brattcollective.com is "a worker-owned and operated technology collective, focused on workplace democracy and promoting a democratic society while supporting like-minded businesses and organizations by providing open-source website development and consulting." They work with Aspiration Tech.
Radical Designs "is a full service web development group focused exclusively on the needs of non-profit and grassroots social change organizations."
Socrata "Complete, Turnkey Open Data Solutions for Government"
News and Commentary
The status of policy implementations of Open Government Data by Joshua Tauberer's Blog
GovFresh is a news organization that "inspires government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy."
OpenGovTV "provides Open Government and Gov 2.0 News, Information & Resources for businesses, government agencies, and constituents to more effectively participate in and benefit from the emerging technologies designed to restore this nation's economy and create jobs as a result of an Open Government."
All US Government IT Projects Under Review
Denmark urges government support for open source
Open Source for America The New Government Accountability
The Case for Government Promotion of Open Source Software
Joshua Tauberer's News Aggregator
Sandy Springs, Georgia: The City that Outsourced Everything
Opportunities
Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is the primary registrant database for the U.S. Federal Government. CCR collects, validates, stores and disseminates data in support of agency acquisition missions. Is this the primary channel of US government communication with the private sector? If so, we need to start working with them to make APIs...
The projects that receive email funding.
Open CRS simply asks congress to make all the tax-payer funded reports of the $100m/year Congressional Research Service open and available to the tax-paying public. What is this money was allocated via open competitions?
Unsorted
http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/01/thomas-off-of-thomas/
http://localleaks.net (added)
http://www.allourideas.org/planyc
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/New...
http://www.meetup.com/speakupnyh...
Food
[http://www.farmigo.com/ http://www.farmigo.com/
Project FRESH is an educational program providing participants with coupons to purchase locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables at participating farmer’s markets.
FarmBridge wants to "provide free software that will help the local foods movement grow!"
"The National Young Farmers' Coalition is a new organization, created by and for young and beginning farmers in the United States." Their Farm Hack Project is "a resource for farmers who embrace the long-standing farm traditions of tinkering, inventing, fabricating, tweaking, and fixing things that they broke."
Wanna Farm is a blog from Blue Fox Farm in Southern Oregon. "One of the things that will help us maintain farmers is by being innovative and creative in creating our farming systems. Hope the info here can contribute to that. Email me at wannafarm [at] gmail [dawt] com"
The Greenhorns is a documentary/community about the emerging young farmer's movement. Here's their blog.
Windowfarms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.
The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species.
Fuel for food — energy use in the U.S. food system
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a non-profit farm and education center located just 25 miles north of Manhattan in Pocantico Hills, New York. Stone Barns operates an 80-acre four-season farm and is working on broader initiatives to create a healthy and sustainable food system. Through our Growing Farmers Initiative, children’s education programs, and diverse public awareness programs, we aim to improve the way America eats and farms.
Garden Sharing: Farming Meets Social Networks
2010 NYC Urban Agriculture Roundup from The Greenest. Events at Farm City new visions for urban agriculture 2010.
Landshare connects growers to people with land to share.
We Patch connects people looking for gardening space with those who have space to offer.
The New York City Regional Foodshed Initiative expands the preliminary analysis of the regional capacity to produce food and involves an in-depth examination of the local food production capacity of the New York City Metropolitan Region.
Food Systems NYC is a membership based organization designed to foster communication and cultivate community amongst various stake holders and professionals working across the food system.
Food Systems Network NYC has compiled a list of online resources for finding quality local cooking ingredients, eating out at local, farmer-friendly restaurants, getting involved in community gardening, and finding tools, resources, and support for becoming involved in food systems work.
North East Ohio Food Web is a local food action group in NE Ohio.
Holton Farms is a CSA aggregator that delivers Vermont produce to consumers in New York City.
Eggzy "manage your backyard chickens online."
http://www.localfoodsystems.org/
http://www.yourgardenshow.com/
Currency
Complementary Currency Resource Center
LETS: Local Exchange Trading Systems
Bernal Bucks San Fran Local Loyalty Program
http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/
http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/
http://blog.newcurrencyfrontiers.com/
http://greensborocurrencyproject.blogspot.com/
Organizations
BALLE is a vehicle for connecting to local businesses.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance "mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens."