About #OccupyMap
#OccupyMap is a platform for empowering citizen journalists and digital archivists worldwide. With OccupyMap you can publish real time reports from Occupy actions worldwide and help to create an archive of the moment-by-moment history of the Occupy movement.
How to Contribute
There are several ways you can contribute to OccupyMap.
The most basic is to tweet information @Occupy_Map on twitter - include links to news stories, photos, and your location whenever possible.
We're looking to build a network of on-the-ground livetweeters for Occupy actions worldwide. If you are a regular participant in actions and tweet about them, contact us on Twitter at @Occupy_Map and let us know your location so we can follow you.
Web
You can submit reports after the fact here: http://map.occupy.net/reports/submit
You can submit your own photos or videos, or link to content that other people have created.
Join the Team
We're looking for volunteers to help us with content moderation and curation, outreach, design and software development (LAMP or Ruby) Contact maps@nycga.net for more information on how to volunteer.
What to Contribute
We're looking for content that captures the moment of a direct action. This can be a photo, video or story. Videos should be unedited or lightly edited for clarity. Videos can be of any length - we can automatically embed videos hosted on youtube, vimeo, or twitvid.
Pictures of any size can be uploaded, or linked to.
Any copyright is retaned by the publisher - OccupyMap makes no claim to copyright on any material hosted or published here.
Technical Information
OccupyMap is built on the Ushahidi platform, an Free-Libre-Open-Source web application developed IN Kenya. OccupyMap is hosted and operated by volunteers from Interocc, Occupy.net and the New York City Gereral Assembly. Operating expenses are paid for by donations to the New York City General Assembly.
Ushahidi (see http://ushahidi.com) is a completely open source project, and was originally developed for use in disaster relief and response efforts, but is easily adapted to a wide variety of applications.
