The Italian edition of the Mickey Mouse weekly magazine has a special inset on Francesco Giubbilini, his activities within the BuioMetria Partecipativa project, and instructions on how to measure night sky quality.
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A video co-produced with Francesco Giubbilini published, with a Creative Commons licence) where he explains light pollution in a straightforward way.
the BuioMetria Partecipativa project, with its new model and the latest updates on the measurement campaign will be at the award ceremony for the “Between Dusk and Dawn“, inspired by the BMP stories.
With a double-feature talk on m(‘)appare Maremma and BuioMetria Partecipativa – with Andrea Giacomelli and Francesco Giubbilini.
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In August 2008 I coordinated and promoted the Summer Campaign for GFOSS.it, the Italian OSGEO Chapter.
The operation implied our presence with a stand at Festambiente, close to Grosseto, Southern Tuscany, one of the largest festivals run by environmental activists in Italy.
To manage shifts (ten days, each day from 4.30 PM to midnight), we set up a team of eight volunteers, coming from various parts of Italy. Our base camp was in Tatti.
Those who were not assigned to a shift, did whatever they wanted, typically coding or mapping in the fields.
The image used for the flyer of the Summer Campaign plays with the double meaning of the word “campagna” in Italian, which stands both for “campaign” and “countryside”. The photo was taken by me South of Scansano, again in Southern Tuscany, a couple of years earlier.
With more or less participatory moments in Cagliari and Monte Arcuentu
“White nights” are initiatives in Italy where a city hosts events all night long (or as far as possible into the night).
In this case I proposed the presence of a small stand combining the promotion of the Italian OSGEO Chapter, the M(‘)appare Milano project, The Revenge of the Killer Chihuahua and of the Zombies, BuioMetria Partecipativa, palla a 21 etc. (at the end of the day, a typical pibinko.org set).
A POV of this event is visible in the initial part of this video.