Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about why ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found here.

eMail

Currently: mostly Gmail :(

Preferences: To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour collective. Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

Known Alternatives:

• Round-cube
• Squirrel Mail
• Riseup
• Thunderbird

Website & Blog

"Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :)

Preferences: To share with the world.

• We are happy with Ecobtyes

Voice over IP

• Purpose: Voice and or video meetings:

(Currently: mostly private Skype accounts)

Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive

• Purpose: Getting organised / handover / archive / storage (so far: mediawiki wiki).

collaborative mapping

• Purpose: Decentrally collecting tipps for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)
• http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
  • a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
• http://osmtools.de/easymap/
  • takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.
  • this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

file hosting / file sharing

• Purpose: Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

social networking sites

• Purpose: Is there really a purpose? ;) Or maybe: all of the above?

micro blogging

• Purpose: Is there really a purpose? ;)

web > tel : bridging

• Purpose: cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us).

more?

• Purpose: ...