<p>Metamaps.cc is a free and open source web platform for changemakers, innovators, educators and students. It enables individuals and communities to build and visualize their shared knowledge and unlock their collective intelligence.</p>
<p>We're creating tools to help connect people, resources and ideas with rich detail and weave those relationships into actionable insights and stories. The platform is evolving for a range of applications amidst a growing network of designers, developers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and artists.</p>
<p>Metamaps.cc is created and maintained by a distributed, nomadic community comprised of technologists, artists and storytellers. We are currently based between San Francisco, CA and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Learn more in the PAQ link below.</p>
<p>Metamaps.cc is an initiative of affiliates of the Metamaps Open Value Network, an evolving network of peers working together to create shared value. Metamaps continues to be a constantly developing experiment in progress.</p>
<p>The peers behind Metamaps have their own respective backgrounds as artists, designers, engineers, advocates, activitists, filmmakers and systems thinkers and share a deep commitment to the creative culture they support.</p>
<h4 id="colophonSection">ACTIVE PEERS (as of 10/2014)</h4>
<p>Robert Best, Benjamin Brownell, Marija Coneva, Devin Howard, Bashar Jabbour, Raymon Johnstone, Shai Mor, Ishan Shapiro, Connor Turland </p>
<h4 id="colophonSection">ICONOGRAPHY</h4>
<p>Iconography within Metamaps is a distinctive and subtle art. We thank the following creators of icons used throughout Metamaps for the courtesy of sharing their work under Creative Commons licenses:<p>
<p>We are also indebted to <a href="http://thenounproject.com/">The Noun Project</a>, an invaluable resource for iconography on the web, and also where many of the above creators' icons can be found.</p>
<p>We make extensive use of open source software for the various technologies, architectures, and interfaces that run Metamaps.cc. We would be unable to offer the service as we envision it without these publicly developed projects.</p>
<p id="colophonCols">Javascript<br>
Ruby-on-rails<br>
Javascript Infoviz Toolkit<br>
Backbone.js<br>
Underscore.js<br>
Famo.us<br>
Typeahead.js</p><br>
<h4 id="colophonSection">BUILDING METAMAPS</h4>
<p> These are the tools and services that the Metamaps team uses to work together and build the platform. Wherever possible, we link directly to a place where we work via a linked asterisk*.</p>
