[FOSS4G-Oceania] Community Day

[John Bryant]

Hi all, ahead of today's meeting, I just want to share a couple of notes on
the Community Day, which is starting to take shape. In the meeting, David
will walk us through a discussion so we can share our ideas on what we
think this day should/could look like.

I had a discussion with the Perth Geogeeks group last night on their Slack,
and they had some excellent suggestions, specifically around the code
sprint component. I found it useful to start thinking about what kind of
activities we might be hosting, and how we can best facilitate them
(without necessarily having to dictate exactly what transpires), so I
thought it would be good to share. Here are a few of the comments they had:

   - I’d like to see JSTS get some love - a project relating to that
   - Something really useful - maybe a testbed site for the community with
   generated geometries or something cool like that. Or a harness for polygon
   generation for generative testing purposes?
   - An incredibly souped-up version of http://bjornharrtell.github.io/jsts/
   that includes all the SFS operations and allows some sort of freehand
   testing would be fun
   - Tooling and quality of life improvements that can be discrete smaller
   projects sound like a great fit. And personally, something I'm more likely
   to continue contributing to afterwards than one of the main open source
   spatial projects that are massive or require practicing black magic.
   - a wiki or such folks can collaborate on and chuck around project ideas
   would work well
   - Adding something to GeoJSON.io
   - Ditto the ogr2ogr web gui
   - API explorer for <some OGC APIs> that makes life easier for spatial
   folks and explains stuff in terms non-spatial developers understand
   - Does openaddresses.io need anything?
   - Interactive PostGIS functions docs?

Cheers
John
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