2026-10-23 –, Room 340
Resist Tech Monopolies (RTM) runs a game called Mapbattle, at which participants use public transportation to go around the city and make Open Street Map (OSM) contributions to gain territory.
The presentation will go over the idea of the game and what inspired it (spoiler: SeaGL 2025 is part of that story), the technology behind the game's website, and the observed community benefits of running this game as well as other benefits we hope the game achieves as it keeps running.
By visiting this or this you can see how the map looks like for a game.
This website is an open source tool we developed for the players to use alongside other OSM tools and apps they can use.
Rules of the game are made to encourage bonding with your teammates and interacting with your city and its transportation network.
https://nextcloud.resisttechmonopolies.online/apps/collectives/Map-BattleTM-3
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software engineer, open source contributor, and tech organizer