Thinking the unthinkable since before recorded time, AMA
@edward@hachyderm.io it's @grajohnt@chaos.social i l'd thought of in the context of early retirement / existential freedom glass fusion hack projects, if you'd not met at #emfcamp then you should in the fediverse!
in the meantime "what profits someone to gain the world but lose their soul"; in whatever medium, life's offered you legroom for a big soul that is there for finding ;p
@ldodds@mastodon.me.uk can you help me out with a missing memory? here in 2005 at WSFII there's an Open Geodata session with a panel including John Something at the National Archives, has an open license which formed the basis of the OGL, gets very into piano later. Forgetting surname, too many John Somethings in this world, want to offer the right credit!
https://saulalbert.net/project/the-world-summits-on-free-information-infrastructures/
TIL that Internet Archive hosts a scanned copy of "Mapping Hacks". Restricted preview, you can log in to "borrow" it for an hour or 14 days. It's listed as "by Erle, @schuyler@metasocial.com author" - three of us credited, many more contributed, who all have bios in the intro
https://archive.org/details/mappinghacks0000erle/page/395/mode/1up
My future self went looking for the piece i'm writing in 2003/4 on "What To Do If Your Government Is Hoarding Geographic Data"
Extracts follow in this thread! Sorry about the quality of the alt text OCR
did i invent this memory of a group photo of open geo luminaries at the Where 2.0 conference in 2006, all wearing matching t-shirts that read
"geowanking
we put the L in A/S/L"
https://www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1532
or does anyone still have a copy of that photograph