On 12/24/2012 06:48 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
On 12/20/2012 06:56 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote:
2012/11/28 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
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? =)
Cristian WM-IT
Sounds potentially good; the one bit of caution, I think, is that if you can't have the event happen in March or early April, you will possibly cause some participants to *choose* between the mapping event and the late May WMNL hackathon, because they can't take the time to travel to both so close together. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013
Just thinking out loud (or in written form) :)
How many people do you expect in this mapping event?
Wouldn't it be simpler and more convenient to have it together / around the Amsterdam Hackathon?
I know we said we wouldn't organize this mapping event ourselves, but if the amount of people is not that big then maybe it can be simply absorbed by the Hackathon. More critical mass in Amsterdam, more potentially diverse collaboration, hopefully less travel and CO2.
Just an idea. No complaints if you still prefer to go for the Trento option.