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
