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DIY El Paso, TX

davidberch — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:02:32 -0800

El Paso, a town of 700,000, is currently experiencing growth and a rebirth of its city center. Sharing a border with the town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, these sister cities make up one of the largest binational areas in the world at about 2.5 million people. With tens of thousands of people crossing the border daily on foot and in car, there is a lot that can be done to improve the efficiency of crossing the border and making public transportation better. A little known fact is that El Paso currently tops the United States in text messaging. 57% of cell phone subscribers, 18 and up, send and receive text messages.

Look at El Paso as a blank slate. This is truly a city where you can make a difference by taking many different approaches.

Atlanta

ChrisAllison — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:42:43 -0700

Bengaluru

commudine — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:30:17 -0800

Welcome to DIY Bengaluru. Lets all take ownership of traffic management and not just depend on the bureaucrats. We contribute the most to the traffic woes in our city, lets collectively solve it. This is very possible and practical. The benefits we get is far greater than the effort required to make it happen.

Berlin

beko — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:39:21 -0800

Black Rock City

m2 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:44:39 -0800

Explore the application of new technology to connect and communicate in a temporal environment.

Byron Shire, Australia

Ricardo Johansson — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:39:50 -0700

Developing community organisation for the purpose of creating and projecting the Will of the People. See www.willofthepeopleproject.net

Campinas

gustavoramos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:14:19 -0800

Oi pessoal... gostaria de receber sugestões. Entre em contato pelo email: eu@gustavoramos.com

Abs!

Denver

Gonzoman — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:18:17 -0700

Disaster Response

Anthony Townsend — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:30:35 -0800

This group will build tools, platforms and services that help coordinate peer-to-peer disaster response efforts.

Discussions

John Geraci — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:54:31 -0800

DIY Amsterdam

Hjalmar — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:45:24 -0800

Improve Amsterdam

DIY Amsterdam

lifesized — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:11:52 -0700

Let's explore if we can get Amsterdam more accessible. This seems like as good a place as any to get started.

DIY Baltimore

btomasette — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:05:25 -0800

DIY Bari

insert_nick — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:44:59 -0700

The best thing cities around the world can do, is having a look on the best things that cities around the world do. So join this group, Bari citizens! Let's see if we can learn from others, and if we can give something back...

DIY Belo Horizonte

glauco — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:11:17 -0800

DIY Bogota

wabisabian1982 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:43:41 -0700

Dejar de criticar y empezar a hacer.
La ciudad es de todos y para todos.

Este espacio es para los que no nos queremos quedar criticando a Samule Moreno o el que venga.

¿Tiene alguna idea para que vivir en Bogotá sea mejor?

Bogotá rediseñada por sus ciudadanos.

contacto: diybogota@wabisabilab.com

DIY Boston

sbisker — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:40:06 -0800

Boston has the country's first subway system, incredibly walkable streets, and more hackers than you can shake a stick at. This group aims to explore the design of technology to take advantage of Boston's strengths, help fix its weaknesses, and begin exploring the technological identity of our communities.

(This text will change in time as the group is established. In the meantime, please join and introduce yourself, share and discuss Boston-related projects, and let's see where this takes us.)

DIY Brighton

mattweston — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:43:07 -0700

DIY Canberra

bodymap0 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:28:34 -0700

To explore Canberra - how can we add to our experience of Canberra using free data.

DIY Cape Town

fustbariclation — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:25:40 -0700

Welcome to DIY Cape Town!

DIY Catania

cityleft — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:14:59 -0700

Cityleft works for a new theoretical and practical scenario in urban planning.
The new scenario is called Urbanism 3.0 (http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=2013).
Urbanism 3.0 is an evolution of Mark Gottdiener’s socio-spatial approach in the sense that a more attention is paid on social interaction.
In Urbanism 3.0, UAIs and Peer to Peer (P2P) projects are conceived to simulate alternative urban scenarios in public space capable to affect region making as well urban planning, involving the participation of a broad research community made of urbanists, social workers, NGOs, environmental artists, graphic designers, minorities, inhabitants, and so on.

DIY Chicago

clint — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:32:21 -0800

Hello everybody!

My name is Clint and I've lived in Chicago for two years. I love it here and am always thinking of new ways to make it better. That's what DIY Chicago should be about. Innovated and creative people collaborating to make Chicago a better place for everyone through better applications and information sharing.

DIY Cincinnati

dave_menninger — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:47:06 -0800

Our page on the wiki:
http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIYcity_Cincinnati

Possible project ideas:

CityCouncil2RSS - A lot of what council does is put online, but it would be nice if we had some feeds and such. I've also experimented with automatically adding contextual links into things like the meeting minutes.

Local Food Distribution - This is just a vague notion right now, but maybe something could be done to coordinate local farmers in new ways to get their goods to different types of consumers like restaurants. Inspiration here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CinciLocavore/message/3162

cincinnati twitter bots - ideas for bots welcome

Cincinnati Wiki - http://wiki.hereincincinnati.net (admittedly something of a pet project for me, but would love to get others involved).

hackerspace / co-working space / free geek / tool library / free culture shop - big benefits in having a real-world space in which to work and share ideas.

local currency app - we could do a local instance of this open source local currency web app: http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/

other suggestions welcome!

DIY College Station

mop.scotch — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:41:58 -0700

To improve the standard of living in College Station, Texas through a utilization of the community and innovation involving social technologies.

DIY Copenhagen, Denmark

Edda — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:03:31 -0800

Let us use the city even better and in new contexts. Be critical and creative. Join in and share thoughts and ideas - DIY is the way to go!

DIY Curitiba, Brasil.

macari — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:07:05 -0800

Em progresso...

DIY Delft, NL

loucaspapa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:22:31 -0700

DIY Edmonton, AB

jdarrah — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:50:19 -0700

DIY Gemeente Zaanstad

arthurkruisman — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:54:14 -0800

To make Zaanstad the most modern city possible. Gemeente Zaanstad is one of the most innovative and creative gemeentes in the Netherlands. Please help us to continuously improve our city.

Greetz,
Arthur

DIY Gothenburg, Sweden

hansstoops — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:08:46 -0800

DIY Grand Rapids

schartkoff — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:11:24 -0800

[Help write this!]

DIY Hamburg

nexthamburg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:23:00 -0700

DIY Helsinki

cityleft — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:10:02 -0700

Cityleft works for a new theoretical and practical scenario in urban planning.
The new scenario is called Urbanism 3.0 (http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=2013).
In Urbanism 3.0, Urban Art Interventions and Peer to Peer (P2P) projects are conceived to simulate alternative urban scenarios in public space capable to affect region making as well urban planning, involving the participation of a broad research community made of urbanists, social workers, NGOs, environmental artists, graphic designers, minorities, inhabitants, and so on.

DIY Hong Kong

designinghongkong — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:06:33 -0800

As an advanced and wealthy city, Hong Kong has a responsibility to play a leading role in pursuing a development model which minimizes degradation of the environment, ecological footprint and encroachment on natural wilderness. It must respond to the clear and present danger of global warming by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. It must respond to citizens’ desire for a better quality physical environment in which to live.

DesigningHongKong believes that better urban planning has a key role to play in achieving these objectives.

DesigningHongKong’s focus is on land policy, land use, planning and urban design. However, there will inevitably be overlap with many other areas of policy, such as energy, transportation, conservation, waste disposal and housing.

DIY Houston

Jonathan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:34:37 -0800

DIY Johannesburg City

Aki — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:27:08 -0700

DIY Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia

raa — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:01:33 -0800

Traffic in Kuala Lumpur can be a nightmare. Firday evenings after a heavy downpour are the worst. What can we do to solve this? Join and help!

DIY Leiden Netherlands

RobinAllenson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:01:18 -0800

DIY Lisboa

jorgeoliveira — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:04:02 -0700

DIY London

TheFella — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:28:26 -0800

DIY Long Beach (California)

thund3rbox — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:38:25 -0800

DIY Los Angeles

betterla — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:15:35 -0800

To transform LA from the city of smog and congestion into a oasis of mobility and open space for all of its citizens and the surrounding communities.

This could include:

1. Adding Metro.net schedule data onto Google Transit, even if it means formatting it ourselves and building a front end.

2. Seriously looking at Challenge #2 and coming up with a solution that will work in LA.

3. You name it... LA could probably use it.

(a work in progress... revised: 2009-01-14. Start a discussion or contact me for suggested changes)

DIY Louisville

louevil — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:24:04 -0800

Louisville is a successful urban community. The distinctive quality of life is embodied by its unequaled physical beauty, culture and diversity. People are its greatest resource. Respect for all culture is the foundation of our future, and information, language and technology are the tools with which we build it. People are our most important resource. We value the people who live and work in Louisville as our greatest asset. Their ethnic and economic diversity provide the living fabric that binds Louisville together. We welcome the involvement and commitment that produces a greater quality of life with citizens and city government working in partnership.

DIY Melbourne, Australia

dasharp — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:25:09 -0800

The Victorian Brumby Government just announced a $38 billion transport plan to revamp our state's dysfunctional and out-dated infrastructure network. How does this meet the needs of a growing population faced with the multi-dimensional challenges of peak oil, climate change and unprecedented water shortages? In Melbourne city the new Lord Mayor Robert Doyle is contemplating a move to re-open Swanston Street to traffic abandoning it's current status as a reasonably bike-friendly thoroughfare. This group welcomes your inspirational ideas to make Melbourne a clean green city that meets the needs of its wonderful mulitcultural, highly creative and awesome citizens. So let's get this party started!

DIY Metro Manila

peterangliongto — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:53:53 -0700

Welcome to this forum , where we the citizens of MetroManila can discuss, brainstorm, plan and execute change that help make our city more livable.
This is just the start and hopefully will develop into different venues for multiple projects that can make our city better.

DIY Mexico City, Mexico

Rich1980 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:32:40 -0800

La zona metropolitana más grande del mundo requiere de muchas horas-cerebro para proponer soluciones tecnológicas que la vuelvan un mejor lugar para vivir. ¡¡ BIenvenidos (as) !!

World's biggest metro zone needs a lot of brain-hours to design tech solutions that make it a better place to live. Wellcome !!

DIY Milwaukee

dpk — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:30:23 -0800

Soliciting people, ideas, discussions and projects for creative web applications and data dissemination relative to metro-Milwaukee's online infrastructure.

DIY Minneapolis/St. Paul

mymble05 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:16:10 -0800

DIY Minneapolis/St. Paul is a forum for Minneapolitans and St. Paulites to share ideas and develop viable solutions to the problems our Cities face. It's founded on the notion that we don't have to wait for someone to do the job for us - anyone can develop an innovative program and change the way we live for the better.

DIY Moscow

jaybird — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:15:30 -0700

DIY Mumbai

rominirani — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:36:55 -0800

To help create applications with user community participation for Mumbai

DIY Nairobi City

kipkanist — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:11:09 -0700

DIY New Orleans

cerebronaut — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:54:14 -0800

Sign-up for the group to post NOLA-related content, and to be notified of meetings, as they arise.

Things that are on my mind, at least:
* Government accountability
* Disaster response
* Sensor Networks
* Cycling

If you have questions, contact Harry at howharry at g mail dot com

DIY New York City

John Geraci — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:47:33 -0700

[DIY New York City is a group for people in the NYC boroughs. Sign up for the group to post NYC-related content, and to be notified of details on local meetups as they arise.]

If you have questions, contact John at geraci at g mail dot com

DIY Northport, NY (Long Island)

atelier-ed — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:56:27 -0700

A place to discuss issues of importance for the businesses and residents of Northport, NY, and propose ways the technology can help.

DIY Omaha

flyerosal — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:57:02 -0700

DIY Oslo, Norway

baekken — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:56:14 -0700

DIY Ottawa

mcr — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:45:26 -0800

The objectives of this group is to provide real citizen input into planning and management of our city by letting smart people solve problems.

For instance, www.octranspo.net.

DIY Paris

Paul Bois — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:30:52 -0800

DIY Petaluma

TiffanyRenee — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:30:53 -0800

Q. How can we use emerging social networking tools combined with mobile devices to create or augment city infrastructure, city planning, city public works? How can we improve quality of life through increased levels of service to the community?

W. David Stephenson of enr.com suggests:
"Looking at various steps in the process through the lens of Web 2.0 will show the relevance of these techniques - and, equally important, the attitude of collaboration they foster - to this issue, and the resulting benefits, ranging from cost-containment to cutting delays to building public confidence:

DIY Philadelphia

aharon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:20:59 -0800

Gather together and cross-pollinate Philadelphia and Greater Philly region urbanists, environmentalists, artists, and community activists for the purpose of developing dynamic projects or sustaining existing institutions with beneficial technology and communication.

DIY Portland Oregon

makerlab — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:59:38 -0800

DIY Sacramento

brandonweber — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:20:40 -0700

A place for the members of our community to talk about how to make our city better.

DIY Singapore

rakeshkumar — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:58:11 -0800

Remake Singapore

DIY St. Louis

Journerdism — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:18:53 -0700

To rock St. Louis

DIY Stockholm, Sweden

Karley — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:52:05 -0700

DIY Sydney

cityofsound — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:09:48 -0800

DIY Tacoma

Wilco — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:03:34 -0800

DIY Tallinn

cityleft — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:52:50 -0700

Cityleft works for a new theoretical and practical scenario in urban planning.
The new scenario is called Urbanism 3.0 (http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=2013).
In Urbanism 3.0, Urban Art Interventions and Peer to Peer (P2P) projects are conceived to simulate alternative urban scenarios in public space capable to affect region making as well urban planning, involving the participation of a broad research community made of urbanists, social workers, NGOs, environmental artists, graphic designers, minorities, inhabitants, and so on.

DIY Toronto

ryantaylor — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:16:50 -0800

DIY Vancouver

joedeobald — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:47:21 -0700

DIY Vancouver

geoteo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:24:04 -0700

DIY Washington Metro Area

amro — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:00:29 -0800

A group for the Metro Washington, DC area to discuss and exchange ideas on the use of technology and its impact on our local environment. All is invited to join and participate.

DIY Wellington

bamatthew — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:49:13 -0700

It's the perfect time to get those infrastructure juices flowing... Mr Key's already pledged to improve things from the top-down - let's use the power of open computer-technology-internet- things to do even more from the bottom-up.

DIY Winnipeg

justindavey — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:02:24 -0800

DIY Winnipeg is open to anyone who has a vision of a more technologically advanced, connected Winnipeg--both economically and socially. By discussing civic issues and both creating and implementing solutions using open source, web and mobile technologies, DIY Winnipeg aims to create a more efficient, sustainable and friendly urban space.

DIY Zaragoza

ftomas — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:15:22 -0700

Los propios ciudadanos impulsando la ciudad.

En Zaragoza existen proyectos importantes para actualizar la ciudad a la realidad tecnológica y social imperante. Algunos propuestos por la administración, otros por diversas agrupaciones ciudadanas o incluso por ciudadanos particulares.

Sirva este foro de debate como lugar de encuentro y de proposición de proyectos concretos, definidos y abordables.

El objetivo: ponerlos en marcha!

DIYcity Main Group

John Geraci — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:58:33 -0700

DIYCity Munich

kojote — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:33:33 -0700

To find public spaces and room for DIY and Workshopevents that are lowcost or free, with a perfect wireless coverage rate.

DIYcity San Francisco

bhaggs — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:35:01 -0800

DIYtraffic Development

John Geraci — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:28:33 -0700

Welcome! This is a group for a DIYcity project currently in development. To participate in discussion about the project, join the group. To help develop the project, visit the to-do list, where you can check out any task that isn't already checked out and work on it. When that task is complete, post a link to the code in the Development Group and it will be reviewed and then merged with the main code.
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Project Name: DIYtraffic
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Description: DIYtraffic is an application that takes any useful feed of local realtime traffic data, aggregates that and outputs it in a variety of formats, and also allows users to query the system for information pertaining to their specific location or travel route.
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Current version in development: 1.1
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To-do list for development: http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIYtraffic_to_do_list
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Product documents: http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIYtraffic_Documentation
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Code: http://code.google.com/p/diytraffic/
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Durham, NC

j.c.sackett — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:38:53 -0700

East Northport, NY (Long Island)

atelier-ed — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:04:08 -0700

Find the ways the technology can help improve life and business success of residents, businesses and the community at large in the city of East Northport on Long Island, New York. This year 2009, in particular, this is an attempt to open one more avenue to bring the community together and address challenges of the slow economy.

Edinburgh

danharvey — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:29:48 -0700

To act as a place to organise DIYcity and local projects for Edinburgh.

Greater Omaha

flyerosal — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:15:53 -0700

Hyderabad

vamshi.goud — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:23:45 -0700

400 hundred year young hyderabad city... let's reinvent it... to Hyderabad 2.0

istanbul

euludag — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:11:11 -0700

Johannesburg

Aki — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:29:15 -0700

Johannesburg

Aki — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:57:26 -0700

Welcome to the City of Johannesburg

Kinston, NC

JoelSmith — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:09:19 -0800

Kinston is in the process of reinventing itself in the wake of the departure of textile, big tobacco and 20th century manufacturing concerns.

This DIY group is intended to help identify the issues driving change in Kinston, the resources available to support change, and the vision of what we want the change to accomplish.

Change, in and of iteself is neither good nor bad. Change is inevitable. By discussing what we want, we stand a better chance of getting it. By deciding what is of value to our community, we have a mark against which to evaluate ideas. In short, the future we get is a direct result of what we do and what we buy today.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

esther — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:05:31 -0700

Los Angeles

damenevans — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:06:37 -0700

My major goal is to motivate individuals to take responsibility for their city and embark on the sorts of projects that will make all our lives better. Things like providing city wide wi-fi.