Dear All, Save the date. We've got initial plans for a Toronto Hack Weekend
March 17-18, 2012 (with additional meet and greet on Friday the 16th) Everything is TBD and uncofirmed, but please indicate your availability asap. We're trying to plan this around the limited availablility of a Very Special Guest. So don't miss this. What is an OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend? Hack weekends have a great history in OSM held most often in London (England). They are an opportunity for the most-technical or OSM enthusiasts to get together to 1) inspire each other 2) learn from each other 3) solve specific technical challenges. Technical challenges addressed at previous hack weekends include, new API versions[1], OSM internationalization[2], osm.org site performance improvements, and initial work on projects that became important OSM tools like Potlatch, search, nominatim, and many other improvements large and small. This is primarily a technical event with a large social component. Everyday mappers are welcome to attend the social portions of this event. The main event will be technical and you should be prepared to code.[3] :-) Potential schedule Friday night - Meet and greet, Mappy hour Saturday, Hack day one 10 - 13:30 Coffee and code. 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 18:00 More code, less coffee 19:30 - ??? Dinner and Mappy hour Sunday, Hack day two 10 - 13:30 Coffee and code 13:30 - 14:30 Lupper 14:30 - ??? More code Probable highlights: Workshop: Introduction to the Rails Port (for new core committers) - 1/2 hour + Q&A This introduction will ease a capable programmer into being a valued contributor to the OSM core code base. Best regards, Richard [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2nd_International_OSM_Hack_Weekend_Nov_2008 [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Hack_Weekend_May_2009 [3] "code" in this case might include writing OSM rendering style sheets, or other non-mapping, technical tasks. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
