Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/28 Erik Moeller e...@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? =) Anyone know if this is happening or not? Sometime around the chapters meeting seems as good a time as any. Or maybe attached as a few days before/after the Amsterdam hackathon. (/me not organizing anything, though) I think there will be little overlap between attendees of the chapters meeting and this, whereas I think there's a bit of overlap with the hackathon. Problem is I am not aware of anyone willing to organize anything around the hackathon. Advantage of what Christian proposes is that someone is willing to host and help organize it. :) The longer time goes by without picking a date, the more likely people like me can't come as something else will come up and then they are busy. Cheers, Katie Cristian WM-IT [1] http://www.fbk.eu [2] http://it.dbpedia.org/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- @wikimediadc / @wikidata ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
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 e...@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 [1] http://www.fbk.eu [2] http://it.dbpedia.org/ 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. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
In Wikimedia Danmark, we have been looking at co-locating the event with Open Source Days* in March, but unless the OSD organisers get back to us really soon, I guess we'll back out. *) http://www.opensourcedays.org/ Regards, Ole On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 12/20/2012 06:56 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: 2012/11/28 Erik Moeller e...@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 [1] http://www.fbk.eu [2] http://it.dbpedia.org/ 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 Best of luck in the planning! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
2012/12/26 Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org: Just thinking out loud (or in written form) :) How many people do you expect in this mapping event? Our (Italian) OSM contact extimated around 20 people from the OSM community, plus the people from the Wikimedia world. 2012/12/25 Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org: 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 Best of luck in the planning! 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. Actually these are good points. I started this page in the hope to get all information in one place: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap/OSM-Wikimedia_event Add your questions to the page (or if your are looking forward organizing it, add your info) Cristian ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
On 12/26/2012 09:38 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: Actually these are good points. I started this page in the hope to get all information in one place: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap/OSM-Wikimedia_event See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/Wikimedia_Mapping_Event_2013 :) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
On 12/20/2012 06:56 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: 2012/11/28 Erik Moeller e...@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 [1] http://www.fbk.eu [2] http://it.dbpedia.org/ 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 Best of luck in the planning! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
2012/11/28 Erik Moeller e...@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 [1] http://www.fbk.eu [2] http://it.dbpedia.org/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
