I think that's it, and for more information, check the slides, and also you can just Google
for Raku-Somaki!
How is it like you make a plan?
It's just...
I'm not over there.
And there's a clicker if you want to.
Perfect, thank you.
You're going to be ready.
Everyone in this room is going to die.
Not today, I hope, but eventually, sadly,
I say sadly, this is nature of life that we all die.
Now, does anyone know what happens after we die?
No.
Well, we do know what happens.
If you're really, really famous,
someone puts a statue up to you.
She's pretty cool, but they're not putting up statues to people
who rewrite Linux drivers in JavaScript.
So what happens to the rest of us?
Well, my wife and I like to go walking whole days.
We walk around and almost everywhere you walk, you will see a bench.
And on quite a lot of those benches, a little memorial plaques.
And they usually say something like,
to Auntie Joan, who loved the view here,
or to my darling son, so taken too soon.
And it's amazing just seeing all these little expressions of love,
just dotted around the world.
And while we were walking, we occasionally took photos,
and we went, someone must have a list of these, right?
You know, like, the local council probably has a list of these benches.
And it turns out, no, no one does.
No one knows where they are, or who put them there,
and you might be able to apply to your council to get them,
but there's no central list.
So we'll make a quick website,
and you can take a photo and upload it,
which we've been doing for the last few years.
It's called Open Benches.
And it's kind of got a little out of hand,
because since, oh, please say there is internet on this machine.
Since we launched it a few years ago,
click on, let's find an interesting one.
There we go.
This is for Friedrich and Iberharts on their Golden Anniversary.
I'm assuming that's what that says.
So they put a bench there.
And so the basics of this,
if I are, you will ground,
you see a bench with a little inscription
you take a geotag to photo,
you click add bench,
and you can just upload it from there.
There's OCR on the site,
so you don't need to optical character recognition.
So you don't need to type in the inscription.
It does that for you,
there are some tags,
and it will display a thing.
You can also sign in.
Again, I really can't be bothered
by covering people's passwords.
So this uses authors zero,
and you can sign in with mastered on and discord
and other social networks.
I'm not going to sign in on your machine, don't worry.
So let's take a look.
The other thing we do is,
so we geocode the bench.
So, you know,
we've got the latitude and longitude of Friedrich
and Iberharts bench,
and so we can say that this is in Berlin,
Germany,
we can do reverse geocoding.
So if I click on Berlin,
you should take me to,
or zoom in slightly stutteringly there,
to Berlin.
There we go.
These are all the benches,
but not very benches in Berlin.
Anyone here from Berlin,
put more benches.
Please find someone who you love,
put a bench up to them.
So there we go.
We've got nice lists there.
I'm going to show a random bench,
because that's always fun.
So people put them up in all sorts of,
beautiful and interesting places.
And this is why I sort of describe it as a,
as a bit of psychogography,
because you can start to see where the beautiful places are in the world.
No one puts a bench somewhere completely,
but actually that's not true.
Let's just,
so there's a supermarket chain in the UK called Sainsbury's,
and people put up benches to their colleagues.
You've worked for some of the years,
and they do, you put up a thing,
and some of them are in car parks.
They're not the most picturesque view,
but I dare say that rendezvous spent a lot of time there,
and it's quite nice for his colleagues to walk past and go,
yeah, that's where we're on use to sit.
So what are the interesting and silly things that we have?
Oh, there's G.O. Jason,
so if you really like G.O. Jason,
you can download all this.
It's all free.
It's all open source.
It's all creative commons licensed,
and everything like that.
You can edit things.
Now this is the other thing we've recently done,
is we are not open street map.
We're not trying to be open street map.
This street map is brilliant,
but it's like massive when we are very small.
So when people upload these benches,
we don't automatically add them to open street map,
because the resolution that we have isn't good enough.
If someone's taking a photo from over here,
that's not where the bench is,
but what you can now do is use map complete,
open and edit the map,
and this will allow you to say, hopefully,
okay, so here is this bench.
Is it actually that one?
You can start, oh, you need to be logged in,
but yeah, so you can start adding these benches
to open street map if you like.
And yeah, what I really want to tell people is that,
you know, it's really cheap and easy to build something like this.
The total open source, if you want to take it,
but go around, explore the world around you,
find little interesting places where people have gone.
I want to leave a mark here, because someone I loved has gone.
And just not exploring the world around you,
and then maybe add it to a bench, add it to a site like this.
I'm going to give you one last reason why you should do this,
which is that when you add things to this,
we'll just have a lead board,
because everything needs gamification.
And so thanks to jailbreakers uploaded 4,000 benches and 12,000 folks.
I mean, this is my site, and I'm like down here,
I've only uploaded a thousand of these.
But yeah, please, if you see an interesting bench on your travels,
please take a photo and upload it.
And if you see something interesting,
oh, there must be loads of these around the world.
Please just start collecting them and putting them somewhere.
Thank you very much, everyone. Cheers.
Thank you.
You sure you could put it in your pocket?
Yes.
Like this?
Okay.
Oh.
Thank you very much for wanting.
Okay.
Oh, start right now.
Okay.
Hello, my name is Stimus.
I'm the leader, can you hear me?
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
I'm the leader of the beams,
the biodiversity information management system.
Okay.
Let me start with the challenge we are dressing.
The biodiversity data exists.
In fact, there's a wealth of it.