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<?php
/**
* Page containing betaville information about betaville!
* Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Betaville
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
include('head.php'); ?>
<body>
<div class='master-container'>
<div class='page-container' style='margin-top: 20px;'>
<div class='page-body container' id='about'>
<div class='column span-5 append-1 side-nav-container'>
<div class='side-nav'>
<h3>
<a href="#">What is Betaville?</a>
<div class='arrow'></div>
</h3>
<a href="#whofor">Who is it for?</a>
<a href="#biggeridea">The Bigger Idea</a>
<a href="#who">Who is Betaville?</a>
<a href="#partners">Partners</a>
<a href="#team">Team</a>
<div class='decoration-v'></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class='column span-8 append-1 about-what'>
<h1 id='whatis'>What is Betaville?</h1>
<p>
<b>Betaville</b>
is an open-source multiplayer environment for real cities, in which ideas for new works of public art, architecture, urban design, and development can be shared, discussed, tweaked, and brought to maturity in context, and with the kind of broad participation people take for granted in open source software development.
</p>
<h1 id='whofor'>Who is it for?</h1>
<p>The Betaville platform is designed to be deployable by individuals, small groups (say, a project class or a neighborhood association), all the way up to professional design firms and planning offices of major cities: any group that is serious about offering a proposal in the spirit of a programmer's RFC (request for comment). In this case, the proposal takes the form of a 3D model set in a "mirror world" of the local context, with a built-in discussion forum, and provision for multiple iterations... the environment can accept models from authoring tools as simple as Google Sketchup, or as elaborate as Autodesk Maya. Anyone with access to a web browser can contribute, and every contribution remains accessible.</p>
<h1 id='biggeridea'>The Bigger Idea</h1>
<p>In other words, the future of a street corner, a blank wall, a vacant lot, or an entire city can now be tinkered with on an ongoing basis at negligible cost by the full spectrum of subject matter experts: the people who know what it's like to live there now, the people who know how to make new things happen... and people with great ideas to share, anywhere in the world, whenever they can and care to.</p>
<p>
In essence, we set out to create an effective platform for the parts of the design and planning process where it has become practical for broad participation and engagement to be most effective: as a matter of course and in a spirit of creative collaboration in the times
<em>between</em>
and
<em>before</em>
the formal/professional/really expensive design development process kicks in.
</p>
<p>
Skills developed (and the associated hardware and infrastructure) through things like online games and trip planning during leisure time as entertainment can be leveraged as skills for creative expression and social empowerment of the students and their own communities, embedded in and serving
<i>local</i>
issues and desires.
</p>
</div>
<div class='column span-8 last about-who'>
<h1 id='who'>Who is Betaville?</h1>
<p>
Betaville is being developed by Carl Skelton and Skye Book in New York, and by faculty and students through the Media 2 Culture program at
<a href=''>Hochschule Bremen.</a>
</p>
<h1 id='partners'>Partners</h1>
<p>Partners include the Municipal Art Society of New York City, the Public Art Fund, the Museum of the Moving Image, The New York Hall of Science, Louis Armstrong Middle School, the Urban Assembly Gateway School, the Centre for City Ecology (Toronto), the Centre for Landscape Research (University of Toronto), the Architecture Faculty of Istanbul Technical University, the White Box gallery (New York City), the Urban Studies Program of Columbia University, Cisco Systems, and the James Jay Dudley Luce foundation. We're happy to announce that we also been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation through its Cultural Innovation Fund, along with Levien & Company, Inc. and Microsoft Research.</p>
<h1 id='team'>The Team</h1>
<ul id="menu">
<li class="folder">
<a href="#" class="submenu"> Project Director </a>
<ul>
<li> Carl Skelton </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="folder">
<a href="#" class="submenu"> Development</a>
<ul>
<li> Skye Book (Lead Developer, New York) </li>
<li> Caroline Bouchat (Developer, Strasbourg)</li>
<li> Dr. Joel Wein (Software Engineer, New York) </li>
<li> Ibrahim Jumkhawala (Developer, New York)</li>
<li> Megh Vora (Developer, New York) </li>
<li> Ojas Gosar (Developer, New York) </li>
<li> Prof. Helmut Eirund (Software Engineer, Bremen) </li>
<li> Prof. Thorsten Teschke (Software Engineer, Bremen) </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="folder">
<a href="#" class="submenu"> Design</a>
<ul>
<li> Cemre Gungor (UI, Website)</li>
<li> Levis Reyes (Architectural Design, New York) </li>
<li> Joseph Fattorini (Sound)</li>
<li> Jee Won Kim (Architectural Design, New York)
</ul>
</li>
<li class="folder">
<a href="#" class="submenu"> Research</a>
<ul>
<li> Mark Skwarek (3-D Research)</li>
<li> Martin Koplin (Bremen project lead)</li>
<li> David Lieberman (Architect, Toronto)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>