(Reading Andrea's post, I'm reminded of the thread the other day about OSGeo's "value". Whatever OSGeo can do to help foster events like this one, even just by providing a mailing list on which to announce it, is of great value -- and is easily overlooked.)
-mpg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrea Antonello > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:47 AM > To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] European GIS Code Sprint > > Dear friends, dear colleagues, > > we would like to raise to you all the following proposal of > an European > FOSS-GIS developers meeting by the end of November (kind of follow-up > of the Canadian Code Sprint in September). > > The event is the 'European GIS Code Sprint' organized as a post-event > of the SFScon 2007 held in Merano, Italy. > > Planned Dates are: > * 16-17 Nov 2007: South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2007 > (http://www.sfscon.it/) > * 18 Nov 2007 (Sunday): Outdoor GIS data collection for Free data set > (somewhere in South Tyrol) > * 19-21 Nov 2007: GIS Code Sprint > > The organisation of the event would be made by the Free > Software Center > in Bolzano. > > The Sprint would mainly have the aim to bring different projects to > know each other and build up some standard interaction, let the teams > of each project meet, discuss, design and code together fulltime and > non-remotely for a few days, and obviously also do some > bugfixing. Also > we would invite power users in order to work on documentation, > translation and even minor issues. > > In parallel, there would be the desire to collaborate on the > creation of > a free dataset by wandering in an ordered way through a defined region > of the south tirol with GPS. The dataset should contain as > many data as > possible, as for example the dataset of the grassbook does. Moreover, > climatic and hydrologic/hydraulic data should be integrated > in order to > support different analyses. > > Time is rather short and we would like to understand how much interest > there is in such an event and more or less how many developer would > like to attend. > > We feel that there is a huge need for a developer meeting that could > bring together different projects, that really need to > interact if they > want to have a glorious future. > > Please give us possibly soon a feedback by *adding yourself* > on the WIKI > page created for the event: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/European_GIS_Code_Sprint > > Warmest regards, > > Andrea Antonello > Markus Neteler > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
