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Metamaps

What is Metamaps?

Metamaps is a free and open-source technology for changemakers, innovators, educators and students. It enables individuals and communities to build and visualize their shared knowledge and unlock their collective intelligence.

You can find a version of this software running at metamaps.cc, where the technology is being tested in an open beta.

Metamaps is developed and maintained by a distributed, nomadic community comprised of technologists, artists and storytellers. You can get in touch by using whichever of these channels you prefer:

How do I learn more?

• Contact: [email protected] or @metamapps on Twitter
• User Documentation: docs.metamaps.cc
• User Community: hylo.com/c/metamaps
• To see what we're developing, or to weigh in on what you'd like to see developed, see our Metamaps Feedback and Features board on trello
• To follow along with, or contribute,to our design process, see our Metamaps Design board on trello
• To follow along with, or contribute to, our development process, see our Github Issues and Pull Requests
• Request an invite to the open beta here

• To send us a personal message get in touch with us via email, Twitter, or Hylo
• If you would like to report a bug, please check the issues section in our contributing instructions.
• If you would like to get set up as a developer, that's great! Read on for help getting your development environment set up.

Installation

If you are on Mac or Ubuntu you can use the following instructions to quickly get a local copy of metamaps up and running using a Vagrant virtualbox. Don't be intimidated, it's easy!

git clone [email protected]:metamaps/metamaps.git

Now ensure you have VirtualBox and Vagrant installed on your computer

cd metamaps
./bin/configure.sh

This will do all the setup steps to make Metamaps work with a bit of behind the scenes ninja magick.

To start servers which will run metamaps you can then run:

./bin/start

To stop them:

./bin/stop

With your webservers running, open a web browser and go to http://localhost:3000

You can sign in with the default account email: [email protected] password: toolsplusconsciousness OR create a new account at /join, and use access code qwertyui

Start mapping and programming!

We haven't set up instructions for using Vagrant on Windows, but there are instructions for a manual setup here:

• For Windows

Licensing information

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

The license can be read here.

Copyright (c) 2017 Connor Turland