Yay, thanks Kari for taking this one. Thanks, too, Alison for a very nice summary. Sounds to me like we have a TCMUG meeting in October... ;)<br><br>-Perry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Kari Geurts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kari.Geurts@dnr.state.mn.us">Kari.Geurts@dnr.state.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I wanted to let you know that I have submitted this as a BOF for the conference (See attached description). I invite all of you who are interested in this topic to please attend (6:30 - 7:30 Holiday Inn Ballroom). I think there will be plenty of time to discuss other open source topics as well.</div>
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<div>Hope to see you all at the conference.</div>
<div>Kari<br></div>
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<div>Kari A. Geurts<br><br>GIS Technical Specialist<br>DNR Forestry <br>Phone: 651-259-5275<br>Email: <a href="mailto:Kari.Geurts@dnr.state.mn.us" target="_blank">Kari.Geurts@dnr.state.mn.us</a></div>
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<div>>>> "Alison Slaats" <<a href="mailto:aslaats@1000fom.org" target="_blank">aslaats@1000fom.org</a>> 9/18/2009 2:57 PM >>><br></div>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">Last week Perry asked for a summary of the discussion at the last meeting about the “open geo apps” contest idea. Here is a summary of what I heard, and a couple more updates of developments since then. </span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">In 2008, MetroGIS had a user forum where ideas of services and apps were discussed. One need was for more WFS. The workgroup that formed to work on WFS discussed how the usual means of getting people/orgs to create, document and post web services was difficult because often there was no immediate business incentive to do so. So, David Fawcett brought forward the idea of a contest modeled after the Washington DC Apps for Democracy contest (</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/</a></span></font><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">). This contest cost $50 and resulted in $2.6M worth of iPhone, Facebook, web etc. apps.</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">The workgroup thought this was a good idea, and took it back to the Coordinating Committee and Policy Board. They loved the idea, but thought it was not fully baked. So now the next stage is to form another workgroup to see if there is broader support for this idea. Groups that were mentioned were: TCMUG, OSGeo, MnGeo, GIS/LIS … MetroGIS has $15K in the budget for next year – but they want to move forward together with other organizations to move this forward.</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">At the TCMUG meeting, people seemed to like the idea. It was mentioned that this would be a great *<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">low risk</span></b>* way to evaluate new technology applications using an organizations data; a good incentive to get services out the door and documented; a good way to facilitate creation of new and innovative web applications; and many more reasons.</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">A few people volunteered to be part of the new workgroup – which was great!</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">Since that meeting last week, Sally Wakefield & Alison Slaats met with the GIS/LIS board to discuss the idea. They also liked it, and suggested a BOF meeting at GIS/LIS conference about it. Perhaps this BOF could be aligned with the OSGeo BOF, or cover both topics, since I think there is an overlap there.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">Here are a few links for background on the DC contest: </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">(The youtube one is pretty good.)</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Courier New" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/</a></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Courier New" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/" target="_blank">http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/</a></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Courier New" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFOABlev3w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFOABlev3w</a></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Courier New" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/4450950" target="_blank">http://www.vimeo.com/4450950</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">Please let me know if you have questions about the idea</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">I’d love to hear from those who like to be a part of this workgroup and also if you think it would be good to have this as a BOF at GISLIS either combined or separate from the OSGEO/TCMUG one.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;">Thanks!</span></font></p>
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