Hi, we launched this morning the GFOSS.it "Summer of you-name-it-as-long-as-it's-free as freedom/open source applied to the geospatial domain": http://www.gfoss.it/ce08
there will be a group (some eight) from GFOSS.it hovering in Southern Tuscany between August 8th and 17th. we will be there as we will have a stand in an event called Festambiente: this is the national yearly venue for an environmentalist association calle Legambiente (http://www.festambiente.it/index.php?c=english-festambiente#inglese for a brief description of the event in English). In parallel/in addition to the awareness raising activities we will be conducting at the stand (in the late afternoon, and until the sun has set and live music starts spreading from the theatre in the Festambiente venue), we will be running some random activities in the surroundings of the feast (meaning an area approximately 50km around the venue itself). This is a general framework for things to happen: we have a general "storyboard": - doing some free mapping (not solely streetmapping) - doing some coding - doing some other geospatially-related type of events - taking time to rest ... as in many TV serials produced in Italy, the final script will be defined day by day, and we will adapt our activities to people showing up etc. ....this does not mean improvisation: this is all spawning from some grassroots activity during the Winter, gradually developed in Spring. The message is 1- it is important for the general OSGeo community to be aware of this 2- if you (or somebody related to you) will be visiting Southern Tuscany in that period, this might be an opportunity to meet with part of the Italian community. 2.1- if you did not already plan to visit Southern Tuscany in that period: don't come on purpose...it is high season...not the best time to add more people...;) you will still get a summary of what happened via web, and we will be glad to elaborate on other similar opportunities in the future (not necessarily in the same place ;) ). 3- comments are welcome on the list for the initiative in general; for actual expressions of interest/ideas for people who may actually show up, you are invited to write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we may discuss the details. thank you for your attention, and regards Andrea Giacomelli, aka pibinko vice president and media relations manager, GFOSS.it _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
