[Sdpg] SD/TJ Design, Plant, Harvest blog, maps, and calendar

[Colin Leath]

This is an announcement of a collaborative blog for the San Diego / Tijuana
region.

SD/TJ Design, Plant, Harvest <http://sdtjdph.blogspot.com/>
>
> Nourishing our shared space, caring for the commons. Proposals, Op-Eds,
> events, & news about food, water, air, energy, culture, and land use in the
> San Diego / Tijuana region.
>

All aspects of the blog are open to being changed, but here is one statement
of my vision for it:

To create a quality source of content devoted to caring for the commons in
> the San Diego / Tijuana region. We want posting here and reading here to
> help us grow in our understanding of the space we share and how to care for
> it.


I see this blog as potentially filling the niche in the region that is
similar to the niche filled further north by HopeDance
Magazine<http://www.hopedance.org/cms/>and here is only partly filled
by Activist San Diego, San Diego Indymedia,
Vision Magazine, The Light Connection, and a combination of other media, the
communications of various listservs, and the announcements and newsletters
of local organizations.

The main features of this collaborative blog include posting, mapping, and
event-sharing. There is:

   - a main blog where selected contributors can post, and a
   "free-for-all" blog where anyone can post;
   - a Map Channels
page<http://sdtjdph.blogspot.com/2007/12/map-channels.html>where
google maps of
   canyons,  permaculture sites, community farms and gardens, nurseries ,
   event locations/meeting venues, and story locations, could all be
   displayed and/or turned on or off;
   - a shared calendar<http://sdtjdph.blogspot.com/2007/12/calendar.html>to
which anyone with a google calendar can post events.

The next step, I think, may be to encourage individuals and organizations to
start adding their content to the maps, calendar, and blog.

This announcement is an initial attempt at that. To be more effective than
this mass email, we may need to meet in person with the people who would be
doing the posting to demonstrate the technology.

If you see value in this collaborative project, contact me, and we can
organize a meeting (a pot-luck?) where we can step people through adding to
the maps, posting to the blogs, and adding events to the calendar.

I expect the beginning of this to be a bit chaotic--I'll be letting almost
whoever wants to to be a contributor to post to the main blog. When some
people are posting and reading, with their help we can refine things.

Peace,
Colin Leath
colinleath at gmail.com <cleath at j9k.org>
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