forgot that buses run on time !
for the informal microbuses , it needs more work if no cheap GPS ( I don’t think they would mind the “monitoring” as they are freelancers - working without a company or a “formal” boss ) , and it needs more benefits for the drivers in order to try install such stuff…
Adding GPS cheaply – hardware side
Your idea seems like a great opportunity for making an impact with open tech, and it would not be that much effort. Adding GPS hardware at least can be quite cheap. A proposal would be:
could work
just saw the comment
I would rather prefer not to use the drivers’ phone. as they change shifts and any way it’s a very personal data . but adding a cheap phone could work.
well I can have a trial location and test with some bus lines… will need to put some time into it. couple of friends are working on mobility at the moment and would be a good fit for their studies.
will keep u updated. and also will need to ask some more “technical” questions later.
Inspiration from Nairobi’s matatu system
Seemingly there are ways to create sweet public transport maps from an informal microbus system. The matatu system mapping could be an inspiration. Just came across it, sharing just in case it’s useful.
Yesterday i met Miccolis.
he was very angry for this map and GTFS.
Mayor of Matera railed him!
Why?
I don’t get it. Why was he angry? (Also notice: there is a gentleman called Miccolis!)
TODO
+15 http://www.miccolis-spa.it/la-tua-citta
#realtime #crowdsource reporting vehicles position reporting bus position (#crowdsourcing) · Issue #18 · unmonastery/untransit · GitHub
Transit Simulator ( open source , on github )
Reminds me of the Transit Simulator :
http://simcity.vasile.ch/lausanne/
see code and HowTo
on GitHub : GitHub - vasile/transit-map: The server and client used in transit map simulations like swisstrains.ch
Lausanne :
Quick update
Hi all, thanks for your interest/comments.
Just a quick update about my availability for January. I am not able to pick some dates for January now. I am waiting for an answer I should have by the end of this week. Then elf and I will make a plan for the dev sprint together with Matera Municipality. Next week I’ll have a video call with them and I’ll introduce this topic to them.
@piersoft “our” gtfs are still rough and Miccolis can help us to improve them. I do not see it as a competition. Our skills and weaknesses are complementary. 
OT: I like elf’s idea of “enabling”. As Karl Marx said, traditional historical accounts of pre-capitalist societies are often Robinsonades (from Robinson Crusoe), namely “fiction”. In the sense that they are projections of the present to the past. Smurfs villages where division of labor, equal exchanges and barter (instead of money) are given as natural. I think (but my only source are my grandmother’s tales) the economy of a village in the Alps, for instance, was based on the concept of enabling as expressed by elf (as far I understood his words). And “enabling” was the source of a slow innovation (Stuart Kauffman uses a similar argument in biology), very different in nature by the explosive and disruptive innovation rate in capitalism.
talking with @piersoft on twitter about workshop in Matera during dev sprint we plan with @mstn
i proposed awarding participants with Open Badges, since i also started participating in W3C Credentials Community Group where we work on generic open credentials together with people from Badge Alliance. i remember open badges not finding appreciation among edgeryders but i would actually prefer in this case issuing them from http://www.opentechschool.org/
OpenData Day
February 21st is the OpenData Day 2015. I wonder if we should organize the dev sprint around this date. Just asking because it is a month later.
Your call
… and @elf_Pavlik's of course. You are the stars of this story: it cannot be done without you. So, I recommend doing it when it suits you best.
i can adjust…
i can adjust my plans!
@mstn let’s discuss it over call today/tomorrow? this way you could present concrete dates on 16th
since we plan couple a weeks ahead, i would also like to make it proper 2 weeks long session, this way we can avoid working in a rush
matera.io hosted on Ecobytes?
@mstn, @piersoft, @Alberto maybe one of you could also get Ecobytes membership to run open services we started deploying on matera.io domain?
besides public transport i plan to test deploy various services developed by civic tech hackers possibly soon also setting up an instance of open source Sharetribe on beni.matera.io @Matthias we could take a look at adding integration with Makerfox as networked barter service… also ask @matslats to offer drupal based Community Forge as timebank and mutual credit services! @david.bovill
also
ping @Kei
Updates!
We exchanged few emails with @Alberto and @mstn so I would like to share latest state of things with everyone interested.
Dates: Feb 9th - Feb 22nd
From latest Alberto’s email:
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I’ll ask someone (called Ida) to help us with finding a place for you to stay. Cheap or free.
I will ask for you to be able to use the unMonastery during the daytime (only the downstairs space). I am reasonably sure you can use the workspace there, and I hope the kitchen too. This will enable you to cook your own meals – I know Elf prefers it.
Ida could possibly also help with arranging hospitality for you in Potenza when you go over. Take heed: Miccolis does indeed serve Potenza, but only with city-to-city lines. Urban transport is managed by another company.
Piero will arrange something in Matera on Open Data Day.
"
From latest Marco’s email:
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In passing, I gave my bank account to Piersoft. This money will be our
budget for the project.
"
We also had meeting during our participation in 31C3 where we discussed exchanges opportunities for people working in field of #OpenData / #CivicTech. I hope we can combine it with this activity and I already started asking Stefan Kaufmann, one of the best experts in field of Open Public Transportation data that I know, if he could join our sprint in Matera even just for one week!
Of course we will keep all the preparation details + logs of all involved financial and real world resources flows public online
all systems ready!
we just had short call with @mstn taking notes in etherpad
quick copy and paste (please check pad for latest version!):
* Marco paid deposit already
elf hitchhikes to Trento
Trento - Matera
* we just get ticket last minute (train or bus) most likely bus on sunday night
http://www.marinobus.it/orari_corse_nazionali_notturne.pdf
* we work with Michele Salerno on getting Ninux Ninux.org - Basilicata | Ciao, in febbraio Pavlik Elf ed io siamo a Matera per un paio di settimane di hacking sul trasporto pubblico [1] | Facebook
* 3G SIM as backup
* Trello
* Offerte sim solo dati - scegli quanti GIGA desideri | WindTre
* asked Squalo for webcube
* improvise, kitchen available http://imagesus.homelidays.it/mda01/a944a3b0-fb2c-4081-84b2-c14f1e8e2724.1.10
* mapping party 14th (Potenza?)
* workshop Sat 21st (open data day)
add to: http://dati.comune.matera.it/en/organization/unmonastery
Transfer from Open Mater contest (in): ??? euro
Spendings (out):
any “English” updates ?
… so what happened and what are the results ?
Transferring the project onto the local community
There have been talks of transferring the project (symbolically, its GitHub repo) from the unMonastery over to the local community, under the Spaghetti Open Data umbrella. Maybe @IdaLeone knows more?
proper post coming soon!
we’ll write a proper post with @mstn in next days and link to it from here, as well as from UnMonastery Rides again… post
after two weeks of non stop work on it, we just needed some time for other work/life activities