ChOS Project 30
Local Happenings & Customs
You probably have an idea of what is happening around you. You might
even know what is happening at the nearest shopping mall or at the
nearest city. However many of those who live nearby don't yet know,
but should. Most likely a tourist or a visiting reporter doesn't have
a clue - but should. This project aims to build a global announcement
map, for keeping the world informed about the local things anywhere.
Basically the idea is to attach blue, green and yellow dots into the
map. Each green dot represents a future event, each yellow dot a
report of a past event and eack blue dot a information about local
customs and traditions. The size of green and yellow dots should
reflect both the importance of the event and a temporal distance to
event.
Why this is important? Three obvious reasons, a) local catherings
are goods to human nature b) If people dont get together once and a
while, they might miss chances to speak to each others about the
importance of democracy c) Local annoncement map is a tool for writing
eye-whitness reports about the historic events that take place, this
is the forum where the worlds reporters might seek their
text/picture/video material. This tool makes it easy for the world to
follow events that take place in places where independent reportes are
banned.
Summarized: Most of the time the announcement map will likely
show funny entertaining events, sometimes in someplaces the project
map might describe piles of corpses and worst kinds of war-crimes.
Sometimes those kinds of quick eye-whitness reports are the thing
which makes the world to react.
This project uses the same map of the world as does the project
"Showcase Tellus". Information storage and anonymity is to be provided
by project Othernet.