On 4th September Anna Morris, Yuwei Lin and I gave presentations of Free Software at the DIY Feminist Festival in Manchester.
Festival timetable
feminist festival venue
My talk introducing Free Software
Free Software and Feminism talk with Anna Morris
Open Street Map workshop with Yuwei Lin
During the Open Street Map workshop a group of us went into the large park near the venue and added detail using pre-printed paper maps and mobile devices. Before the workshop the chapel at which the festival was held was on Open Street Map at all, and the park was mostly just a green mass with none of the fences, footpaths, buildings, or play areas listed. Our team of volunteers added significant detail to the existing map, making it a far more useful and accurate representation. The changes from the workshop are now viewable on the Open Street Map website.
Area mapped during the Open Street Map workshop
See Yu-wei’s blog post for more detail on the contributions made to OSM during the workshop.
So, what do you think ?