[Noisebridge-discuss] hacking against homelessness

[Christoph Maier]

On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 15:11 -0700, munkeyfreenix batcat wrote:
> Does anyone want to help make a GIS/web scraping/data mining app to
> help Homes not Jails find vacant buildings? It needs to be modular
> enough to port to other cities as well, and other organizations as
> well. 
> 
> I've been prototyping in python, with wxPython for frontend, orange as
> datamining lib, and for GIS part, either a hack on google maps or a
> stripped down implementation of the grass gis. 

Might be something I want to learn, anyhow 
(i.e., something more sophisticated than
http://www.sandiegomensa.org/images/stories/bm2008/tracklogs.kmz )

I'll probably show up @2169 Mission tomorrow, Monday; 
after that I'll get shanghaied for 2 weeks;
email connectivity: to be determined.

Christoph