Publication, presentation and grant planning
<dme:context type='node' cid='51' />Here is a list of all the publications and presentations we're writing for, deadlines, and who's in charge of each:
Current/in-progress:
(for completed or past writing, see http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/publication-planning-archive
Google Summer of Code
- March 11th deadline for mentor organizations
- Then students apply to those on April 8
Full timeline: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline
Main site http://code.google.com/soc/
- 2011 program page: http://www.google-melange.com/
- Mentor guide: http://www.booki.cc/gsoc-mentoring/
- Student guide: http://www.booki.cc/gsocstudentguide/
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects....over a three month period. Since 2005, the program has brought together over 4,500 students and more than more than 4,000 mentors & co-mentors from over 85 countries worldwide, all for the love of code.
Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.
Ars Electronica - Digital Communities
- due March, 18 2011
- 5-10k euros
http://new.aec.at/prix/en/kategorien/digital-communities/
The “Digital Communities” category is open to political, social, cultural and artistic projects, initiatives, groups, and scenes from all over the world that are effectively utilizing digital technology to further society and to promote social responsibility. It is open to the initiators and propagators of these communities as well as the developers of the relevant technologies, and is meant to honor those whose work contributes to the establishment and proliferation of digital communities as well as to those efforts that promote better understanding and research.
Projects will also be selected based on both their social and technological engagement, the usage of social software tools, artistic and cultural approaches and the creative implementation of the concept. Special attention will also be paid towards the degree of the visionary and forward looking potential of the projects, their potential for new innovation and the degree to which they have already been realized.
Jurors will place particular emphasis on the reasonableness, appropriateness and openness of the solutions. Digital Communities projects should enable human beings to enjoy the widest possible access to technology, networks, content and the so-called digital commons. The projects singled out for recognition should be able to serve as models to be taken on by others, and should constitute a source of inspiration, encouragement and empowerment.
VISUALIZAR'11: Understanding Infrastructures
Call for Projects and Papers Deadline: March 21, 2011 Call for collaborators: April 11, 2011 Dates of the workshop: June 14 through July 1, 2011
http://medialab-prado.es/article/visualizar10_comprendiendo_las_infraestructuras
Medialab-Prado and EOI Business School call for projects and papers that will investigate, analyze and represent through data the running of infrastractures and global systems. Selected projects will be collaboratively developed during the Visualizar'11: Understanding infrastructures workshop, that will be held in Madrid from June 16 to July 1, 2011.
Papers will be publicly presented during the previous international seminar on June 14 and 15, 2011.
Possible topics:
- Energy infrastructures. Power grids, gas and oil distribution networks, renewable energy production networks…
- Transport infrastructures. Aerial and sea routes, road and rail networks, urban mobility networks…
- Information infrastructures. Radio and TV broadcasting, data networks, communications satellites, underwater cables, wireless urban networks, terrestrial and mobile telephony.
- Supply chain infrastracture. Processes and systems of the agro-alimentary production, goods and products distribution networks…
- Removal Chain. Waste collection systems, treatment plants, recycling processes…
- Economy and financial infrastructures. Banks, trade zones, processes and agents of the financial markets…
- Legal infrastructures. International agreements, regulation bodies, territory regulation plans… (See the list of related links and references)
Medialab-Prado’s Visualizar program is a research and education platform devoted to exploring the culture of Big Data and its impact today in science, society and the arts.
Each Visualizar edition includes an intensive project development workshop, a conference, educational activities open to the public and the exhibition of the developed projects.
Those interested may apply until March 21 through the online form available at http://medialab-prado.es
PlanningTech@DUSP conference at MIT
April 8 2011 (paper deadline 2 weeks earlier)
A half-day conference on urban planning and technology
http://web.mit.edu/rgoodspe/www/planningtech/
FOSS4G - Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Denver
Sept. 12-16, 2011
http://2011.foss4g.org/abstracts/
Sessions will run in seven concurrent tracks with space for around 135 presentations in both a regular program and an academic program. Presentations will either fill 30-minute slots with time for questions or 5-minute lightning talks. Proposals can be submitted online at http://2011.foss4g.org/program/.
2011 Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Conference
May 6-7: "Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground" - Jeff is lead
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805
Upcoming but not yet committed to
JustMeans Citizens' Choice Award For Social And Environmental Innovation
Due March 1st 2011
Award is to be featured in USA Today. This doesn't seem that attractive. We could probably get featured in USA Today anyways.
Due dates: http://www.justmeans.com/take-action/SocialInnovationAwards
Princeton Conference on Environmental Politics
Research Frontiers in Comparative and International Environmental Politics
Call for Papers - deadline March 15, 2011
Princeton University, December 2-3, 2011 Sponsored by Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a conference on Environmental Politics at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University on December 2-3, 2011. The conference aims at connecting research communities across continents, presenting cutting-edge research in environmental politics, and identifying future research directions in comparative and international environmental politics. The steering committee will also identify a subset of selected papers for a special issue in a major political science journal. Editors of key political science journals are likely to attend the conference.
Agenda and Rationale
We are particularly interested in proposals that study environmental politics from an international or comparative political economy perspective. Traditionally, IR scholars have emphasized the role of international factors (international regimes, trade, FDI, epistemic communities, IGOs and INGOs) while the comparativists have focused on domestic variables (domestic political institutions, partisanship, economic variables, interest group pressures) to explain environmental policy outputs and outcomes. This conference invites leading scholars to systemically examine the roles of domestic and international factors alone or in interaction to develop more nuanced models of environmental politics across space and time. Some of the broad research areas and questions include (but not limited to):
- Environmental politics in authoritarian states,
- Effects of political and economic transitions on the natural environment,
- The role of citizen preferences and civil society on environmental policy choices,
- The role of international networks --- e.g., trade, FDI, IGO, NGO --- on environmental policy choices,
- The effectiveness of voluntary regulations and new forms of governance on environmental policy outcomes,
- Agenda setting in domestic and global environmental politics.
Expenses Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance has generously offered to cover economy class travel and lodging for paper presenters.
Time Lines
Please email your paper proposal (one page max) to caox@essex.ac.uk. The proposal submission deadline is March 15, 2011. The steering committee will notify authors of selected papers by May 1, 2011. Best regards, Steering Committee Xun Cao, University of Essex (caox@essex.edu) Helen Milner, Princeton University (hmilner@Princeton.EDU) Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, Seattle (aseem@uw.edu) Hugh Ward, University of Essex (hugh@essex.ac.uk)
2011 CARE Request for Proposals
March 22, 2011, 4 p.m. EST EPA Community Action for a Renewed Environment; $75,000 to $100,000 for Level 1 Link to grant site more information
EPA Environmental Justice Small Grants Program
http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/grants/ej-smgrants.html
March 31, 2011 deadline, 40 awards up to $25k each
The Fund for Wild Nature
Feb 1, May 1, Sept 1
- funds the "development of citizen science" and favor small groups with ob's under 250k
- give small grants, $1-5k
http://www.fundwildnature.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=10
i3: Investing in Innovation - Dept of Education
2011 not announced yet, but 2010 was opened at beginning of March 2010. It was due in mid-May, and awarded in September.
Grants of $5m (Development), $30 (Validation), and $50 (Scale-up)
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/innovation/applicant.html
Good overview of 2010 process: http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/03/08/i3-innovation-grant-program-opens.aspx
for, according to ED: "supporting effective teachers and principals; improving the use of data to accelerate student achievement; complementing the implementation of standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and careers; and turning around persistently low-performing schools."
four other priorities that will enhance an applicant's ability to receive funding: "improving outcomes for young children; expanding students' access to college and preparing them for success in college; addressing the unique needs of students with disabilities and of limited English proficient students; and serving schools in rural areas."
Grant recipients will be required to match 20 percent of their awards themselves or via investment from the private sector.
Summary of the characteristics of the 2010 Highest-Rated Applicants
...provides funding to support (1) local educational agencies (LEAs), and (2) nonprofit organizations in partnership with (a) one or more LEAs or (b) a consortium of schools.
The Investing in Innovation Fund, a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provides competitive grants designed to encourage programs that improve student achievement, student retention, student graduation rates, and teacher/administrator effectiveness. To this end, applications are being accepted by local school districts, groups of school districts, and non-profits working with groups of schools or whole districts.
Journal of BioUrbanism (JBU)
Due Aug 2011 - The new Journal of BioUrbanism (JBU), a peer-reviewed international online journal of architecture, planning, and built environment studies , is currently considering papers for inclusion in its first issue launching in 2011. The Journal of Biourbanism aims at establishing a bridge between new theories and practice in the fields of design, architectural and urban planning, and built environment studies. It offers latest biophilic research reports, and focuses on harmonious inter-relationship between built and natural context at both neighborhood and city scale.
Coverage includes, but is not limited to:
- Sustainable urban design and planning: morphogenetic design, Integral theory, biophilic urbanism, interactive architecture, morphological analysis and cartography, ICT & GIS;
- Participate planning and analysis: Peer to peer Urbanism, pattern language, community participation.
- Environmental psychology: Ecopsychology, Environmental psychology, people-environment transactions, psychogeography, creativity and city, performativity in urban environments.
- Ecology and planning: Landscape Ecology and planning, Land Suitability Evaluation, sustainability, green infrastructure, climatic design, renewable energy, landscape urbanism, Strategic Environmental Planning.
Submissions should be sent by email to the Editors before August 2011: Journal of Biourbanism: JBU@Biourbanism.org
Articles should be supplied in Word or OpenOffice Write format. All authors' details must be printed on a separate sheet and authors should not be identified anywhere else in the article. The full manuscript must not exceed 20 pages. It must include a single-spaced abstract of 250 to 500 words. Image max 3 (in high resolution). A title of no more than eight words should be provided.
More information can be found at: http://www.biourbanism.org/journal-of-biourbanism