[Geowanking] Geowanking at BM?

[Dan Brickley]

Mike Liebhold wrote:
> Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
>> "The cool stuff at Burning Man seems to be play... Maybe we need to play with each other some more."
> Actually a lot /most of geowanking people  on the list -do- play 
> together on perhaps uncountable  projects like osm, and osgeo, and  many 
> more.
> 
> I'm wondering how we could collaborate on a graphnet visualization of 
> the people and project connections on geowanking. It would be fun to 
> have working by next years' wherecamp.

That would be fun. As would actually attending wherecamp sometime :)

So I've started trying to hack something.

1. I grabbeded the gzip'd mailboxes of this list from
http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/

2. extracted sender emails and counted, sorted these.

3. started playing around wiring this up to Google's Social Graph API, 
so that we can properly count when someone is using from multiple email 
addresses known to be of same person. And to find blogs, twitter, photos 
etc.

As far as I've got so far is checked into svn here:

http://svn.foaf-project.org/foaftown/geo/geoff/

Notes:
http://svn.foaf-project.org/foaftown/geo/geoff/readme.txt

Sample output:
http://svn.foaf-project.org/foaftown/geo/geoff/log2.txt

Top of which is [[
256: 	mnl / well.com
152: 	anselm / gmail.com
148: 	bounces / lists.burri.to
146: 	lblake / ksninc.com
117: 	tomlong / gmail.com
111: 	andy / hexten.net
103: 	steve / adam.com.au
94: 	rich.gibson / gmail.com
89: 	adoyle / eogeo.org
82: 	raj / rajsingh.org
81: 	geowanking / highearthorbit.com
80: 	ian / urbanmapping.com
77: 	sparafina / comcast.net
72: 	josh / oklieb.net
65: 	joshua / burri.to
63: 	nelson / crynwr.com
62: 	steve / asklater.com
61: 	mikel_maron / yahoo.com
56: 	ajturner / highearthorbit.com
56: 	kevin / phunc.com
53: 	cameron.shorter / gmail.com
53: 	anselm / hook.org
51: 	cholmes / openplans.org
47: 	shadow / dementia.org
42: 	andrew / andrewlarcombe.co.uk
41: 	tylermitchell / shaw.ca
39: 	hbgrant / voyager.net
38: 	wkearney99 / hotmail.com
38: 	jeremy / groundspeak.com
38: 	tpryor / media.mit.edu
38: 	drew / zhrodague.net
38: 	gould / lsi.uji.es
37: 	jgarnett / refractions.net
37: 	sgillies / frii.com
]]

Now there must already be better code around for summarising mbox list 
archives. I don't want to re-do that.

But I would like to be able to feed these email addresses (hashed or 
unhashed) to services like Google SGAPI to see what else they're 
publically linked with. Actually I've code for that written already but 
I couldn't quite track it down! The beginnings of a crude rewrite are in 
svn but I have to run now, so thought I'd post what I have. Partly this 
is a matter of just getting the url encoding of calls to the Google API 
right, partly a matter of dealing with the data that comes back and 
seeing what % of geowanker participants can be matched up this way. For 
exampel, 
http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findcontacts.html?q=tomlong%40gmail.com


Hope this quick scribble makes some sense,

cheers,

Dan


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