Hi! I am Nick Grossman - urbanist, technologist and neighborhood handyman. I'm interested in the intersection of cities and the Internet. At work, I'm Managing Director of Civic Commons and Open Cities Evangelist at OpenPlans. I live in Boston and have an amazing wife and two great kids. This is my Big Boy Blog. More about me, me, me →

Tag Archives: chandler

Chandler and Constraints

I spent most of this morning looking back through old posts about the Chandler Project and OSAF.  I’ve thought about this a lot, due to the many parallels with my work at The Open Planning Project.  For newcomers, those parallels are: Massive funding from a visionary with a dream (in OSAF’s case, Mitch Kapor, in [...]

Sorry, Chandler

For a while now, I’ve been using Chandler to keep track of my to-dos.  Chandler is a semi-historic open source project which I’ve been following ever since I read Dreaming in Code (and in many ways, it’s saga parallels ours at The Open Planning Project with our work on OpenPlans)  I’ve been rooting for it [...]