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[edit] Notes on Locative Media Consortium development.

• Establishment of a consortium of projects, groups and people interested in

 locative media, and semantic web applications.

• • formal structure is necessary to facilitate delivery to funders and

   management of funds.

• • possible choice / adaptation of 'co-operative' legal structure or similar.
  • modular structure where politics, methodology and representation of

   individual projects is necessary, so the structure must be as clear about
   it's limitations and umbrella status as possible, while still acting as
   some kind of 'quality of service' guarantee ;) for funders/collaborators.

• • project management experience would be useful - ask Sara Diamond of Banff

   for advice on this maybe? (MT)

• • possibility to share a committment to pooling common resources such as

   applications, utilities, namespaces, ontologies etc.. to prevent work
   duplication and grow fast prototypes with real data (shared development
   and bug-tracking system for example..?)

• • possible development of shared goals / manifesto style document, requiring

   a statement of intent from each participant?

• • an interoperability/ standards effort
  • self-conscious effort to produce a 'definitive event'.
  • establishment of an institution responsible for data gardening and

   conserving a global repositor of open geodata to be used by subgroups to
   develop tools etc...

• • establishign a repository of grant application modules to be re-assembled

   and used by members of the consortium.

• Possible face-to-face meetings in the near future
  • Transmediale, Jan 31st - 4th Feb 2004. - specifically 4th Feb. Berlin.
  • Etcon Feb 9th - 12th, 2004, San Diego.
  • Drew's festival in Manchester, spring 2004.
  • Wireless workshop in London, sprint 2004.
  • Banff event?

• Short term aims of any face-to-face meetings:
  • theory -> jazz up on high futurological theory with MT and BR
  • roadmap -> featurelist, how far we are, whats new
  • tech demo-> show off the latest software and integrations
  • art show-> the locative media shown off in the tech demo

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