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

[Richard Symonds]

I think WMUK might be able to host something, (possibly) - especially if
Tom Morris is around to help!

Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
On Nov 28, 2012 2:50 AM, "Erik Moeller" <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> From: Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM
> Subject: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
> To: maps-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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>
> 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
>
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