[OSGeo-Discuss] European GIS Code Sprint

[Michael P. Gerlek]

(Reading Andrea's post, I'm reminded of the thread the other day about
OSGeo's "value".  Whatever OSGeo can do to help foster events like this
one, even just by providing a mailing list on which to announce it, is
of great value -- and is easily overlooked.)

-mpg

 

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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Antonello
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> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] European GIS Code Sprint
> 
> Dear friends, dear colleagues,
> 
> we would like to raise to you all the following proposal of 
> an European
> FOSS-GIS developers meeting by the end of November (kind of follow-up
> of the Canadian Code Sprint in September).
> 
> The event is the 'European GIS Code Sprint' organized as a post-event
> of the SFScon 2007 held in Merano, Italy.
> 
> Planned Dates are: 
> * 16-17 Nov 2007: South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2007
>     (http://www.sfscon.it/)
> * 18 Nov 2007 (Sunday): Outdoor GIS data collection for Free data set
>     (somewhere in South Tyrol)
> * 19-21 Nov 2007: GIS Code Sprint
> 
> The organisation of the event would be made by the Free 
> Software Center
> in Bolzano.
> 
> The Sprint would mainly have the aim to bring different projects to
> know each other and build up some standard interaction, let the teams
> of each project meet, discuss, design and code together fulltime and
> non-remotely for a few days, and obviously also do some 
> bugfixing. Also
> we would invite power users in order to work on documentation,
> translation and even minor issues.
> 
> In parallel, there would be the desire to collaborate on the 
> creation of
> a free dataset by wandering in an ordered way through a defined region
> of the south tirol with GPS. The dataset should contain as 
> many data as
> possible, as for example the dataset of the grassbook does. Moreover,
> climatic and hydrologic/hydraulic data should be integrated 
> in order to
> support different analyses.
> 
> Time is rather short and we would like to understand how much interest
> there is in such an event and more or less how many developer would
> like to attend. 
> 
> We feel that there is a huge need for a developer meeting that could
> bring together different projects, that really need to 
> interact if they
> want to have a glorious future.
> 
> Please give us possibly soon a feedback by *adding yourself* 
> on the WIKI
> page created for the event: 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/European_GIS_Code_Sprint
> 
> Warmest regards,
> 
> Andrea Antonello
> Markus Neteler
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