On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com
wrote:
2012/11/28 Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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.
Hi,
Sorry for bringing up this thread again so late, anyway Wikimedia
Italia has found a partner who is willing to organize such an event:
the "Bruno Kessler Foundation"[1] (FBK).
FBK is a research centre in Trento (Italy), which is already active in
the field; they are also maintaining the Italian version of
DBpedia[2]. The event will be held in Trento.
They are rather flexible about the dates, but we are suggesting to
organize it around the Wikimedia Conference (the days just before or
just after the conference) so to focus our efforts in that period; in
this way we could also profit from the fact that some people from the
WMF staff will already be in Italy (since the WMConf will be held in
Milan).
Also, we think that organizing it before April will not give a
sufficient notice to other developers who may be interested in
participating.
We already contacted the Italian OSM community which will help to to
get in touch the international community.
Is this ok for you, can we start make it moving? =)
Anyone know if this is happening or not? Sometime around the chapters
meeting seems as good a time as any. Or maybe attached as a few days
before/after the Amsterdam hackathon.
(/me not organizing anything, though)
I think there will be little overlap between attendees of the chapters
meeting and this, whereas I think there's a bit of overlap with the
hackathon. Problem is I am not aware of anyone willing to organize
anything around the hackathon.
Advantage of what Christian proposes is that someone is willing to host and
help organize it. :)
The longer time goes by without picking a date, the more likely people like
me can't come as something else will come up and then they are busy.
Cheers,
Katie
Cristian
WM-IT
[1]
http://www.fbk.eu
[2]
http://it.dbpedia.org/
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