Hi,
On 12/02/2012 12:03 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I would suggest piggy-backing this on OSM's annual State of the Map' event.
Piggy-backing on bigger events is generally a good idea for small hackfests with a good % of pure volunteers.
However, as for today the State of the Map conference doesn't even have time/location defined, but it's quite certain that it will be in 2H 2013. Within the February-March time frame suggested by Erik there are options like
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FOSDEM Feb 2-3 @ Brussels (Belgium)
OSM got a booth en previous years. No idea about 2013 but FOSDEM is anyway a good pole of attraction for all kind of FLOSS developers - ourselves included. In fact we are trying to build critical mass around this event - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM
Sadly there is no geolocation DevRoom but if both projects want to organize something right before the event (e.g Friday, Feb 1st)...
Later than that other options could be
* http://whereconf.com/where2012 San Francisco, April 2-4. * http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Linuxtag Berlin, May 22-25. * http://wherecamp.de/ Berlin, probably June.
The OSM project has more events listed at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Events but there are no 2013 events listed right now?
There is also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Conferences but most of those events happen in 2H 2013.
What about a combo around FOSDEM and Where Conference, focusing each on EU/US communities with a few privileged sponsored contributors able to attend and connect both?
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Piggy-backing on bigger events is generally a good idea for small hackfests with a good % of pure volunteers.
I'd be fine with that. Even so there's usually some work involved, so my main request is for the organizing/logistics to be handled by someone other than WMF. Therefore I think we should bias towards places where there's an expressed willingness to do so by a chapter or other local group.
So far we've got potential interest from Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Denmark (Ole suggested potentially attaching it to http://www.opensourcedays.org/ in March), as well as the suggestion to just attach this to the Amsterdam hackathon in May.
I've enumerated some of the main options here and would appreciate feedback:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/Wikimedia_Mapping_Event_2013
Cheers, Erik