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