Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk On Nov 28, 2012 2:49 AM, "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org > Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM > Subject: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year? > To: maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Hi folks, > > it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting > some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production > to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but > obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the > recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will > probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the > mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ). > > To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing > volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a > face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related > development work sometime around Feb/March 2013. > > WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and > bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are > there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in > Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I > know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other > options as well. > > Cheers, > Erik > > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >