for immediate release

GROUNDCREW VIEWER NOW OPEN SOURCE

Citizen Logistics has released the source for their Viewer, the world’s first realtime human coordination interface, under an Affero GPL license.

The text messaging capability of cell phones will deeply change the structure of our economy, and our level of civic engagement, according to Joe Edelman, CEO of Northampton-based Citizen Logistics. “We are leading an open-source effort to make realtime human coordination a possibility,” he said, referring to software which tracks the availability of workers, participants, and volunteers in real-time and lets strangers give each other assignments.

This software project is now looking for co-developers from art projects, universities, companies, and corporations interested in realtime human coordination. Interested developers can clone the git repository or view a live installation of the software, and can contact joe@citizenlogistics.com to get access to the pivotal tracker and other peices of project infrastructure.

The project will also be having weekly “codejams” on Monday afternoons, Eastern Daylight Time, starting this Monday. Join us on irc.freenode.new/#groundcrew.