On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, R E Sieber <[email protected]> wrote: > That explains why there are so few female geowankers.... >
not true... read on for the rest of the story... > > On 10-11-08 1:06 PM, P Kishor wrote: >> >> in the beginning there was a lonely, frustrated male mapper... one >> day, alone with his drafting table and his measuring square, he spied >> a really sexy looking map on the wall... >> He had never seen such a lovely map. He looked at his drafting table and square, and back at the map, and his heart sank. The only way out was to jump out of the window into the snake pit 10 floors below. And then, there was a knock on the door. A vivacious, smart, energetic female mapper entered the room with an iPad and a touch-optimized version 3.0 of OpenLayers rewritten in CoffeeScript. They sat down together and typed "www.netsol.com" on the virtual keyboard... >> <cut to a few hours later> >> >> www.netsol.com >> search for domain: geowanking.org >> A happy ending. Why, did you have a different story? >> >> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ian White<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> reality<sigh> >>> i'd prefer we create a myth as it could be a much sexier story--something >>> akin to "your chocolate in my peanut butter" anybody else have good >>> ideas? >>> >>> >>> == >>> >>> Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc >>> >>> 26 O'Farrell Street Suite 310 :: San Francisco CA 94108 >>> >>> T.415.946.8170 X800 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com/blog >>> >>> On 8 Nov 2010, at 09:30, Mike Liebhold wrote: >>> >>> Joshua Schacter started the geowanking list in 2003 on his own domain [ >>> [email protected]] - about the same time he started experimenting >>> with GeoURL. one of the first efforts to geocode web objects. >>> >>> Abouyt two years ago, Joshua handed of admin to Brady Forrest, O'Reilly >>> media who set up the new domain geowanking.org. >>> >>> >>> Mike Liebhold >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 11/8/10 7:51 AM, Catherine Burton wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I'm drawing a blank - who started or how did geowanking start? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Catherine >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Catherine Burton | Owner/Manager, Endpoint Environmental, LLC | >>> Organizer, >>> WebMapSocial Silicon Valley Meetup | Editor, BAAMA Journal >>> 474 23rd Avenue, Suite 2 | San Francisco, CA. 94121-3032 | (415) 902-0403 >>> | >>> www.endpointenvironmental.com >>> -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
