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===What is it?===
It's like a Wikipedia for the Cowley Road=== What is CowleyRoad. org? ===
Every public or commercial building from It's like a Wikipedia for the Plain to Magdalen Road has its own page. We are building an open archive of facts and photos celebrating Cowley Road's social and architectural life, with all content [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement freely available] for community use.
The project will be officially launched during Every public or commercial building from the Plain to Magdalen Road has its own page. We are building an open archive of facts and photos celebrating Cowley Road Carnival 2017's social and architectural life, followed by a series of public workshopswith all content [https://en.wikipedia. The workshops will collect memories and images, and show people how to add these to the websiteorg/wiki/Free_culture_movement freely available] for community use.
===Who made it?===All content is created by and for the local community. All contributions are released under an open license, so all content on the site is genuinely available for free community use. See the [[Copyright|Copyright]] page for more details.
This is The project was officially launched during Cowley Road Carnival 2017, followed by a project series of public workshops. Further public events in October & November 2019 will gather more material from artist [http://eleanorg.org Eleanor Greenhalgh] local people and programmer [http://charlieharvey.org.uk Charlie Harvey]digitize it for the archive.
It uses software from === How do I get involved? ===* Add your photos and memories! — click the "request account" button at the top right of the page. Then read the [https://www.mediawiki[How_to_contribute|how-to page]] for instructions.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]* Don't have anything to add, and features some images from other open archives such as but want to improve the archive? Check the list of [[http://www.geograph.org.uk/ GeographJobs which need doing]]. We are working in partnership with [http://cowleyroadcarnival.co.uk Cowley Road Carnival]* Sign up to our newsletter using the box at the bottom right to get updates about the project, and to hear about upcoming events.
We will be running This is a series of workshops to get local people set up with accounts on the websiteproject from artist [http://eleanorg. All contributions are released under an open license, so unlike other archives, all content on the site is genuinely available for free community useorg Nor] and programmer [https://charlieharvey.org. See the [[Copyright]uk Charlie Harvey] page for more details.
===How do I get involved?===It uses software from [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki], and features some images from other open archives such as [http://www.geograph.org.uk/ Geograph]. It features a large contribution from local author and photographer [https://www.martin-stott.com/ Martin Stott] who has generously contributed his own archival photographs. We are working in partnership with [http://cowleyroadcarnival.co.uk Cowley Road Carnival] and have benefited from the advice and support of historian [http://lizwoolley.co.uk Liz Woolley].
Please [http://eleanorg.org/contact contact Eleanor] The project has been supported financially by Lankelly Chase and the Greening Lambourn Trust, which exists to express your promote interest. The site will be up in the history and architectural heritage of Oxford by supporting publications and running other media which create access to accept contributions soonthem.
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==The hidden history of Oxford's favourite street==
CowleyRoad.org is an open, DIY community history project.
===How does Who made it work?===
===Previous Public Events in 2019===
* '''Thurs 17 October''', 6-8pm: FREE. Drop in any time to share your photos and memories. At [http://openhouseoxford.co.uk/ Open House], Little Clarendon St.
* '''Sat 19 October''', 2-4pm: FREE. Drop in any time to share your photos and memories. At [www.fusion-arts.org Fusion Arts], Cowley Rd.
* '''Tues 12 November''', 2-4pm: FREE. Photo safari workshop: come out and take photos on Cowley Road.At [www.fusion-arts.org Fusion Arts], Cowley Rd.
* '''Tues 19 November''', 2-4pm: Cowley Graphic artists remix workshop. Come and create new works from images in the archive. At [www.fusion-arts.org Fusion Arts], Cowley Rd.
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