[FOSS4G-Oceania] Who is ready to commit to leading an activity on the community day?
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 19:33:35 PDT 2018
Great suggestions Ed and Philip, and thanks for committing. That will be
really helpful in demonstrating that we have people with commitment
ready to create a diverse and successful community day - worthy of OSGeo
sponsorship.
On 3/7/18 9:16 pm, Philip Mallis wrote:
>
> And happy to help Ed with that!
>
> I like the idea of having a discussion at least about a
> Melbourne/Australian OSM problem as doing it in person is always more
> efficient than doing it online. But happy to be guided by what people
> think would be best.
>
> Philip
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> *To:* John Bryant
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> *Subject:* Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Who is ready to commit to leading an
> activity on the community day?
> Happy to put my hand up for some OSM related activity under the
> Maptime Melbourne banner.
>
> Four ideas come to mind:
>
> - Choose a Melbourne/Aussie OSM problem that we can all solve together
> in the same room e.g.(highway exits, wheelchair accessibility, sacred
> indigenous sites)
> - We go on a bit of a walk/field trip, using ODK Collect and Open Map
> Kit applications to gather map data around the venue
> - HOT mapping task focused on Papua New Guinea. Phil and I had one a
> few weeks ago that was fun and will have another tomorrow.
> - A street-level imagery themed session where we use objects detected
> in images to add data to OSM. This could be preceded with street-level
> imagery collection around the venue.*
>
> *Disclaimer: conflict of interest on my part as I work for Mapillary.
> This I a fun session though and is usually very well received.
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul. 2018, 3:05 pm John Bryant, <johnwbryant at gmail.com
> <mailto:johnwbryant at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Definitely +1 for a QGIS focus on the Community Day. Perhaps it's
> time to get in touch with the QGIS Australia group (primarily
> Andrew Jeffrey, but also Nyall Dawson & Nathan Woodrow), and ask
> for their input. They might want to run with something at the code
> sprint, and they might also have ideas for something else too.
>
> It's worth noting their event in Sydney in November 2017 was a big
> boost in getting our event started, and they were thinking about
> turning it into an annual event, so I feel it's important to make
> sure they are involved in this as much as they want to be.
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 at 14:34, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The OSGeo community has always been very supportive of OSM,
> with many people having a foot in both camps.
> I'm sure that listing an OSM activity would be seen very
> positively by the OSGeo board, and I think we would be remiss
> not to list something.
>
> I'm hoping we have enough in house expertise and interest to
> do something with QGIS at the code sprint too.
>
> Everything else listed would be a bonus.
>
>
> On 3/7/18 12:13 pm, David Dean wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I would certainly be interested in supporting humanitarian
>> and local mapping events, but personally I will be probably
>> too busy coordinating the entire community day itself to run
>> one myself.
>>
>> I think that we'll end up with a number of humanitarian
>> projects seeking mappers, and probably one or two local
>> mapping events. Please feel free to put your hands up if you
>> want to run one of these on the day.
>>
>> I've put up a tentative request-for-projects form at
>> https://goo.gl/forms/pYn54vi0wWsBNqY53, and a more formal one
>> should be on the website soon with Cholena's help!
>>
>> Thanks everyone,
>>
>> - David
>>
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 at 11:52 Andrew Harvey
>> <andrew at alantgeo.com.au <mailto:andrew at alantgeo.com.au>> wrote:
>>
>> David or Ed, are you planning some kind of OpenStreetMap
>> mapping party for the community day? I'll be there to
>> help out but not sure what you're planning.
>>
>> I'm thinking a good activity would be helping do the
>> manual part of a local import, I can sketch it out and
>> lead it if we go ahead.
>>
>> In terms of an OpenStreetMap code sprint, it's really
>> going to depend on who's attending and their interests.
>>
>> Neither of these are OSGeo related, so wouldn't expect
>> them to count for the sponsorship.
>>
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, at 8:27 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've just reviewed our request [1] for code sprint
>> sponsorship from
>> > OSGeo, and I think it will be more likely to be
>> accepted if we can state
>> > that we have already have XX people committed to lead a
>> code sprint /
>> > community activity.
>> >
>> > I'm prepared to commit to saying "I'm prepared to lead
>> an OSGeo-Live
>> > community activity".
>> >
>> > Do we have anyone else who could say something like that?
>> >
>> > [1]
>> >
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKPn5tF8z3edeiidlPBShA5H3xR0mstdKyqG-VwlRrQ/edit#
>> >
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>> > Technology Demystifier
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