Introductions

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olisb

Welcome to the Murmurations Forum - a place to discuss https://murmurations.network. Please introduce yourself here - so others know who you are.

I am Oli S-B from The Open Co-op and have been working on mapping ideas for many years... and have helped develop https://murmurations.network along with Adam McKenty.

Colm

I think this is the place for intros... Hi, I am Colm Massey. I lead the Solidarity Economy Association's Open Data & Mapping project. We have been researching different approaches to data sharing and mapping for the Co-operative & Solidarity Economy movements for several years, having participated in and supported the last few Open conferences and been debating how best to do this with Ollie for several years now. It looks like we are closer than ever now to complimentary approaches that can address distinct parts of the jigsaw!

olisb

Colm Welcome! - I am looking forward to taking our collaboration forward - I have set up a specific thread for it here

doug

Hey I'm Doug! 👋 I co-founded and continue to develop a common house for purposeful project work(ers) in center-east Germany called Kanthaus. On the search to develop sustainable relationships between people and nature based on cooperation over coercion and competition, I've focused a lot on decision-making and how (small) groups can internally govern themselves in a post-consensus fashion.

Yet perhaps the bigger and more complex question is how groups can interact with each other. The first step towards interaction is knowledge of existence—discoverability—something that so many maps and platforms try to achieve with uninspiring success. I had some murmurations-like ideas earlier this year and was very glad to find some people had actually got somewhere already!

I would be happy to help by doing detailed testing, issue writing and evangelizing. I could also imagine to help try and get funds for the project, and even help with 'management' (I did some scrum-mastering once). My technical skills are lacking to directly contribute to code, but could help with documentation. Let's do this! 🚀

olisb

doug Brilliant - welcome! We will definitely need help with testing, issue tracking and spreading the word - as well as project management, so these are all very useful offers - thanks @doug - We should be in a position to share some more details soon about our plans / roadmap for Murmurations v1 and your input will be really useful.

olisb

Hey @doug - I just published some of our thinking about developing V1 - check it out and let us know what you think / if you are up for helping with the next steps!? 😉

Yannick-Solucracy

Hi Everyone ! First of all, thank you for that marvelous idea :-) . I'm Yannick, from France, currently working on developing something called Solucracy which has nothing to do with technology. On the side, I'm really active on all that transition thing and trying to push forward a little project that could be summed up by deploying murmurations in France . I saw you mentioned the virtual assembly, I know some of them if you need to discuss what they're doing with PAIR. Another interesting project they worked on : https://transiscope.org/ , more than 20000 transition actors listed. This was done by creating a semantic bus that catches the data from multiple sources and displays it. And Murmurations could be one of the sources, which would close the gap between the old and the new way of doing things. Anyway... I 'm trying to install the aggregator on a wordpress site so I might bother you with a few questions at some point :-)

bhaugen

I'm Bob Haugen of http://mikorizal.org/ which we just connected to Murmurations.

Writing a blog at https://write.as/economic-networks/ which is now shown in https://murmurations.network/feeds/ but with a bare title and URL. Will raise a separate question about that, but at least we've started murmuring....

Our focus these days is on https://valueflo.ws/ - a common vocabulary and protocols to communicate flows of economic resources of all kinds between participants in cooperative economic networks.

how

Hi there, I'm hellekin from petites singularités.

The IN COMMON Collective adopted v0.1 and just updated the file to v1.0. With IN COMMON and DREAM we're working on developing free software for the Commons, in a complementary way to Murmurations. IN COMMON is gathering the Belgian Commons and ESS sector around the idea to share technical resources to identify, promote, and defend the Commons. DREAM is currently researching data models and P2P protocols to enable offline-first group collaboration to that end, building on RDF, Linked Data, CRDTs, two-tier P2P networks, and unikernel provisioning.

I'm looking forward to the murmurations 😀

Jennifer

Hi I'm Jennifer. I participated in Open 2020 with the Open Co-op. I live in Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, in the US BUT I'm a proud Canadian.

Here in Virginia there is a budding Solidarity Economy Network and our main project right now is mapping the Solidarity Economy in our state. So naturally I thought of Murmurations. I just checked what you have for my area of the world and discovered a new cool organization. So thanks!

OK, so in the SE most people are not really that aware of the tech aspects of building SE. That is the case with my Virginia SE comrades here. They are considering just using a google map for our project. So I'm here to ask some questions. I think I will start a new thread to ask.

wu-lee

Hello! Some of you know me already, but I'm about to post some questions about Murmurations, so I'll formally de-lurk first.

My name is Nick, I do technical work for the Solidarity Economy Association in Oxford, UK (via my freelancer tech cooperative Code-Operative). Although I live in Edinburgh.

Another reason to de-lurk is to mention to @Jennifer that mapping the Solidarity Economy is exactly what the SEA do, see Solidarity Oxford, for example. (Also, Mersey Green Map, the NewBridge Project.) More about this on the thread you started here.

We aim to provide the data in an open (linked) data format, specifically RDF (in XML, Turtle formats and maybe soon, JSON-LD too). Descriptions use terms in a linked-data vocabulary designed for the solidarity economy, called ESSGLOBAL, although this is in need of some maintenance, which we are slowly addressing. (See also A DCAP for the Social and Solidarity Economy, which may give some background to that).

And also we have membership maps for the ICA and the .coop domain registry.

I'm currently looking into creating a schema and hooking up our curated lists of SE initiatives to Murmurations' indexes. Our lists are not currently managed by the individual members, who often don't have the resources, but by a more centralised group who keeps track. We are also planning to to try publishing maps of the Murmuration's indexes, using our map software. I'll post on a separate thread about that here.

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