The planet’s largest civic event was held on April 22, 1970 -- the very first Earth Day, kicking off the modern day environmental movement. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, we wanted to tell you all a bit about Sloan the sloth, our loving mascot.
Sloan has been with us since the Summer of 2017, working hard at moderating discussions and welcoming new users to the community. She has a pretty important job! On top of these responsibilities, Sloan also publishes posts for members who would like to remain anonymous while they seek advice from the community. You can check out some of her posts here:
Clearly, Sloan is not a lazy sloth -- she’s just slow moving, and being slow has actually helped sloths survive on this planet for almost 64 million years! It’s an incredible tactical strategy that us humans could probably practice every now and then. For those of you curious, Sloan is part of the Bradypodidae family of sloths. The main distinction between her family and the other sloth family, Megalonychidae, is that Sloan is three-fingered instead of two-fingered. While this distinction may seem minor, these two families of sloths carry very different lifestyles!
You can have an impact
Due to the impact of COVID-19, there has been an unprecedented decline in donations to animal conservation efforts. While the virus has caused global hardships, we cannot totally disengage with the ongoing need to support environmental efforts. If you are in a situation, as a software developer, where your employment situation has not been upended by the pandemic, we ask that you consider donating to a conservation foundation.
If you’d like to learn more about sloths, today’s your lucky day. We invited Dr. Rebecca Cliffe, Founder and Executive Director at The Sloth Conservatory Foundation to host a #watercooler AMA on DEV. Check it out here:
This program is covered by the terms of the GNU General Public Licence v3
See the file LICENSE in this directory for details.
As of version 45, ASM no longer supports Python 2.
Python >= 3.6 is required for f-string support.
Dependencies
If you are using a Debian-based system (eg: Ubuntu), then the following will
install all the software you need to run ASM. If you are using the
sheltermanager3 deb package it already has dependencies set for these and will
install them for you.
apt-get install make python3 python3-cheroot python3-pil python3-mysqldb python3-psycopg2 python3-memcache
Extra, non-mandatory packages:
apt-get install imagemagick (for scaling/compressing PDFs to save on storage)
apt-get install wkhtmltopdf (for creating PDFs from HTML document templates)
apt-get install python3-xhtml2pdf (pure Python lib for creating PDFs from HTML document templates)
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! 🎈
PublicLab.org
The content management system for the Public Lab research community, the plots2 web application is a combination of a group research blog -what we call "research notes"-and a wiki. Read more about the data model here.
Begin running (and contributing to) this codebase immediately with GitPod:
It showcases a variety of features that help the Public Lab community collaborate on environmental technology, design, documentation, and community organizing. Originally a Drupal site, it was rewritten in 2012 with Ruby on Rails and has since extended but not yet entirely replaced the legacy Drupal data model and database design. We ❤️ Open Source and actively participate in various OSS programs such as Google Summer of Code(GSoC), Rails Girls Summer of Code (RGSoC), Outreachy, and Google Code-In (GCI)
Some key features include:
This repository provides information about the moja global organization and its tools. You can find out who we are, what we do and most importantly, how we work and how you can contribute.
What is moja global?
moja global is a collaboration under the Linux Foundation that aims for the widest possible collaboration on and use of credible tools to better manage the land sector. The flagship software is the Full Lands Integration Tool (FLINT), a tool to estimate emissions and sinks of greenhouse gasses from forestry and agriculture.
Why moja global?
Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time. Globally, more than 25% of the greenhouse gasses emissions are caused by the land use, mainly agriculture and forestry. But plants are also the easiest way to take CO2 out of the atmosphere again. So while land use is now part of the problem, we want…
This is the source code behind climatescape.org, an open
database of organizations leading the fight against climate change.
Developer Setup
Note: you need to be invited to our Airtable project to run this project
locally. The process is really simple and we accept anyone who's interested in
helping out. Simply fill out the Climatescape Contributor Application.
Follow these steps to get the project installed on your local dev machine
$ git clone https://github.com/climatescape/climatescape.org.git
$ cd climatescape.org/site
$ npm install
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