CAMP Monsoon of Code

May 15, 2009 - July 31, 2009

Over the next 4 months, CAMP will begin working on a number of coding / website projects. For all of these, we invite collaborations, and programmers looking for challenging contexts.
The projects include, but are not limited to:

  1> India Theatre Forum: Working with Prithvi Theatre and the India Theatre Forum, the endeavour is to create a network / platform for theatre professionals across the country. Alongwith aiming to re-evaluate a number of 'web 2.0', and 'social networking' features, the challenge is to translate these concepts into practical and usable frame-works. This will include experimenting with SMS and phone-based communication. Technologies we we will use are Python, Django - Pinax, jQuery / Javascript, and SMS.

  2> Edgware Road.  A website that organises ongoing research via its backend, and then publishes quarterly a set of "documents", which are produced and edited by people on the Edgware Road, a mixed arab/iranian/kurdish/asian/other neighbourhood in london. The website also is an experiment with online layouting/ design, and "print from web" technologies for things like posters, printed placemats and a magazine.

  3> Working with architects and researchers from CRIT (http://crit.org.in), this project will put online, in its first phase, detailed data collected by CRIT for the Vasai-Virar region in Mumbai - heritage structures, ecological zones, village boundaries, roads, etc. In it's second phase, if all goes well, the interface would be extended to be a public interface for all of Mumbai. Technologies we would be working with include Python, Geodjango, PostGIS and OpenLayers.

  4> Inventory: Over the years, CAMPers have accumulated a lot of stuff- kilometres of cable, tiny connectors of all sorts, microcontrollers, audio, video and projection equipment, bookshelves about art, programming, film, hundreds of DV tapes, terabytes of data on hard-drives... This project is, first, to index this range of 'things' into a common searchable database, so we don't spend half our lives looking for things :-). Second, it is to explore ways in which this index and its material can be presented as a public "library", in which a number of forms of distribution may be possible: exchange, lending, copying, buying, etc.  Further, to explore similar possibilities for other people / groups with collections of material, of any type. The Internet of Things, revisited.