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Monthly Performance Snapshot - Part 1: Monthly performance snapshot through the end of June 2026 is online: civicrm.com/about/
Key highlights: 1) CiviCRM is growing, 2) Core Team earned income continues to play an outsized role, 3) Spark growth has flattened & 4) the project is still underfunded.
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“Williamson’s plan would link Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and Bangor in a continuous circuit with high-speed trains.”
“The Loop would put all nine cities within 90 minutes of each other and eight international airports would be linked within the same time frame, creating what Williamson describes as “a new global city, dispersed but connected”.”
if the tech centi-billionaires want to try to buy redemption by funding the coolest Anglo-Celtic engineering project I've ever seen, connecting some of the greatest cities in the world… a moonshot project that scales 'northern powerhouse' to something befitting the name… well I'm here for it.
@doug @pennine sure, but it’s the President of RIBA’s plan.. £130bn obvs is a bonkers low number.. but give it 20 years campaigning, then 20 years for a Chinese-led consortium to build it.. (I can dream)
I guess also you’d start with the big bits where there’s no train line at present, Dublin to Bangor / Liverpool and Glasgow to Belfast.. and aim to build with a long term eye on the high speed loop.
If these summers are now the norm then there’s going to be tens of millions of English each year who no longer want to holiday in Southern Europe and will more likely head north and to Wales / Ireland / NI.. that shouldn’t all just fall on Ryanair.
Nb I checked with my civil engineer wife if she’d heard of this plan (yes) and if it was a joke project (no).
For the record here is a 100+ mile Chinese bridge/viaduct that took four years and cost $8bn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danyang%… (in an obviously completely different legal / planning / employment regs environment).
(But obvs not a hope in hell if people in those places don’t want it, after the hs2 shambles.)
Panoramax federates initiatives (by local authorities, OSM contributors, IGN, etc.)
to promote the emergence of a geo-common of immersive view databases."
The requirement for a local panoramax-instance is likely to be a hurdle to expanding coverage outside France? I wonder how much it might cost (roughly) to run one of those.
That is correct, and for many communities, that's a significant hurdle.
Thankfully, we're also seeing generous individuals and communities who are hosting instances that are more permissive with regard to photos taken outside their own regions.
Panoramax federates initiatives (by local authorities, OSM contributors, IGN, etc.)
to promote the emergence of a geo-common of immersive view databases."
tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas. It allows the collection of street-level imagery in the Argentine territory.
I'm a forty-six-year old man, and for about thirty-eight of them, I've thought that the best piece of writing ever is the fourteenth chapter of The Little Prince, the one about the lamplighter.
I read it on paper in Russian, Hebrew, English, Catalan, and Ladino.
Today, I finally read it on paper in French from beginning to end.
I still think that it's the best piece of writing ever.
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#BuenasNoches desde #Asturias Me gusta la gente que sabe la importancia de la alegría y la predica. La gente que mediante bromas nos enseña a concebir la vida con humor. La gente que nunca deja de ser aniñada. M. Benedetti
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in reply to Doug • • •I guess also you’d start with the big bits where there’s no train line at present, Dublin to Bangor / Liverpool and Glasgow to Belfast.. and aim to build with a long term eye on the high speed loop.
If these summers are now the norm then there’s going to be tens of millions of English each year who no longer want to holiday in Southern Europe and will more likely head north and to Wales / Ireland / NI.. that shouldn’t all just fall on Ryanair.
Nb I checked with my civil engineer wife if she’d heard of this plan (yes) and if it was a joke project (no).
For the record here is a 100+ mile Chinese bridge/viaduct that took four years and cost $8bn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danyang%… (in an obviously completely different legal / planning / employment regs environment).
(But obvs not a hope in hell if people in those places don’t want it, after the hs2 shambles.)
Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge - Wikipedia
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