[OSGeo-Discuss] GFOSS.it - Italian local chapter Summer activities (in Italy). Don't come if you are not already visiting the country and the area ; )

[andrea giacomelli]

Hi,

we launched this morning the GFOSS.it "Summer of
you-name-it-as-long-as-it's-free as freedom/open source applied to the
geospatial domain": http://www.gfoss.it/ce08

there will be a group (some eight) from GFOSS.it hovering in Southern
Tuscany between August 8th and 17th.

we will be there as we will have a stand in an event called
Festambiente: this is the national yearly venue for an
environmentalist association calle Legambiente
(http://www.festambiente.it/index.php?c=english-festambiente#inglese
for a brief description of the event in English).

In parallel/in addition to the awareness raising activities we will be
conducting at the stand (in the late afternoon, and until the sun has
set and live music starts spreading from the theatre in the
Festambiente venue), we will be running some random activities in the
surroundings of the feast (meaning an area approximately 50km around
the venue itself).

This is a general framework for things to happen: we have a general
"storyboard":

- doing some free mapping (not solely streetmapping)
- doing some coding
- doing some other geospatially-related type of events
- taking time to rest

... as in many TV serials produced in Italy, the final script will be
defined day by day, and we will adapt our activities to people showing
up etc. ....this does not mean improvisation: this is all spawning
from some grassroots activity during the Winter, gradually developed
in Spring.

The message is

1- it is important for the general OSGeo community to  be aware of this

2- if you (or somebody related to you) will be visiting Southern
Tuscany in that period, this might be an opportunity to meet with part
of the Italian community.

2.1- if you did not already plan to visit Southern Tuscany in that
period: don't come on purpose...it is high season...not the best time
to add more people...;)
you will still get a summary of what happened via web, and we will be
glad to elaborate on other similar opportunities in the future (not
necessarily in the same place ;) ).

3- comments are welcome on the list for the initiative in general; for
actual expressions of interest/ideas for people who may actually show
up, you are invited to write to comunicazione at gfoss.it so we may
discuss the details.



thank you for your attention, and regards

Andrea Giacomelli, aka pibinko
vice president and media relations manager, GFOSS.it