[OSGeo-Boston] Meetup Tue (Today) at Media Lab

[Alan Wu]

Note that this OSGeo meeting time conflicts with the BOSPDAUG (Boston
PDA User Group), which has had regularly scheduled meetings at 7pm on
the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, usually in MIT Room 3-133:

http://bospdaug.org

OSGeo readers might be interested in the following announcement,
extracted from an email by BOSPDAUG member Al Willis:

"The Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) will be hosting a
Developers Conference, free and open to the public, at the Tang Center
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on November 14th, 2009.
The Conference is free and open to the public.  It will include
plenary sessions featuring speakers from the transportation and
technology community, and breakout sessions, where developers can meet
to discuss EOT’s data and what applications they are working on.  The
Conference will also include training sessions for the Regional
Transit Authorities, which provide transit services outside of Greater
Boston, to help those agencies maintain their data in open and
available formats on the Developers Page.
The Conference will build on EOT’s historic step toward openness and
transparency started by the creation of the EOT Developers Page."

http://massdotdevconference.eventbrite.com/

In summary, the Mass Governor's Executive Office of Transportation
(EOT) has announced the release of machine-readable information about
transit and transportation to software developers of geo-aware apps.
This includes transit schedules, realtime transit vehicle locations,
and realtime traffic congestion information.  The conference will
discuss open standards, Web APIs, and potential uses for the ongoing
release of this data.

This is an exciting breakthrough, since it opens the way for
Massachusetts software developers to match or exceed the comprehensive
transit and traffic information services already available to San
Francisco Bay residents (http://511.org).

The BOSPDAUG membership has become increasingly interested in
location-aware applications, enabled by the spreading popularity of
GPS-equipped mobile platforms such as the iPhone, Android-based
smartphones, and others.  It would be unfortunate if OSGeo and
BOSPDAUG meetings were to be regularly scheduled at the same time
(except for joint meetings!).

As for this evening's meetings, I regret my inability to be in two
places at once 8^(.  I do support the proposed on-campus location, as
more conveniently accessible, and at least offering the theoretical
possibility of going to one, and then the other, or alternating 8^).

--Alan Wu

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at mit.edu> wrote:
> The room is confirmed, it is in E15-135 in the Wiesner Bldg/Media Lab at 20
> Ames Street Cambridge, MA 02139-4307.
>
> http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E15&Buildings=go
>
> We'll meet at 7.00 p.m. tonight. If anyone is lost, you can call or text me
> on +1.617.412.6334 or find me or AIM (bombayologist) or GoogleTalk
> (bombayologist).
>
> Best,
>
>
> Shekhar
>
>
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:18:09AM -0400, Shekhar Krishnan wrote:
>>>
>>> All:
>>>
>>> Sorry for the late notice on this. We'll meet at the MIT Media Lab,
>>>  Wiesner Building, E15, 20 Ames Street Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
>>>  http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E15&Buildings=go
>>>
>>> Meet downstairs (stairs go straight down from Ames Street) in 'The
>>>  Cube', the workspace with sofas inside glass doors to your right once  you
>>> enter the lobby. I'll confirm the room number to this list tomorrow  once I
>>> get it from the ML folks.
>>
>> Cool. I should be there.
>>
>> -- Chris
>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>
>>> Shekhar
>>>
>>>
>>> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is anything actually happening?  If so, when and where?
>>>>
>>>> Miles Fidelman
>>>>
>>>> Shekhar Krishnan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear All:
>>>>>
>>>>> My colleague Tim 'Chippy' Waters, freelance geo-hacker, OSM enthusiast
>>>>> and web developer from Leeds UK will be in town next Tuesday 27 October
>>>>> evening. I propose a meetup around 7.00pm in Cambridge to share ideas and
>>>>> projects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim and I also want to show off the Map Rectifier and Digitizer he's
>>>>>  been developing for the New York Public Library http://maps.nypl.org  which
>>>>> contains thousands of historical maps archived by the Maps  Division. Here's
>>>>> more about Tim and his work  http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/projects
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if anyone is interested, and I'll book a room or space
>>>>>  somewhere at MIT with a projector. Also, if you want a beta account on
>>>>> http://maps.nypl.org please email me off list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> S.K.
>>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Shekhar Krishnan
>>> MIT E51-185
>>> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
>>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>>> U.S.A.
>>> 
>>> http://heptanesia.net
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>
> --
>
> Shekhar Krishnan
> MIT E51-185
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> U.S.A.
> 
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> http://bombayology.net
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