[FOSS4G-Oceania] Call for workshops winding up

adam steer adam.d.steer at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 00:53:16 PDT 2018


@Ed, yeah, basically ‘using revealJS and leafletJS for storytelling with
live maps’.

@Sarah, I really thought your tutorial was great! So it could also be
revealJS + mapbox

@Andrew - spot on. With open source tools.

Hmm. I reckon I should step back, you all *know* what you’re doing, I’d be
bringing a butterknife to your chainsaws in a woodcutting competition.


On 30 July 2018 at 17:44, Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu> wrote:

> Also happy to work on something too.
> Perhaps in combo with my other thought for a mapbox workshop / JS
> libraries? (Which I haven't submitted yet. Busy today!)
>
> Actually I was thinking on creating something like this (the demo below)
> at work with mapbox anyway so could go hand in hand with building some
> tutorial / workshop prep.
>
>
> On Mon., 30 Jul. 2018, 17:39 Andrew Harvey, <andrew at alantgeo.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> > (and one last hustle - anyone wanna co-propose an open storymap
>> workshop?)
>>
>> I'm happy to help out with something like that based on Mapbox GL JS
>> (here's a good demo of it https://www.mapbox.com/labs/wirrida/index.html),
>> but it's maybe a 30min workshop with geojson.io to create the data, then
>> code up the map.
>>
>> Should we submit it anyway or try to fit it into an existing workshop?
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, at 5:24 PM, adam steer wrote:
>>
>> Interesting point. At F4G boston I went to an Azavea workshop which used
>> open source (free as in pay nothing) tooling; but called to Azavea’s image
>> analysis API (raster foundry?). It worked great, and the tools were useful
>> even without using the paid-for data parts. We had temporary licenses for
>> the day.
>>
>> I also went to a GBDX workshop (sponsored content) - which again provided
>> some insight which is useful beyond paying for GBDX.
>>
>> There’s a mix there, I think the key is that if you propose a workshop
>> using a tool people need to pay for, provide them a license for the day;
>> and give skills which are also useful if you take the tool away.
>>
>> (and one last hustle - anyone wanna co-propose an open storymap workshop?)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30 July 2018 at 16:54, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> +1 m.
>>
>> On 30 Jul. 2018 4:08 pm, Andrew Harvey <andrew at alantgeo.com.au> wrote:
>> But the Free in Free and Open Source means freely licensed notfree as in
>> cost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software).
>>
>> My point is simply it's a joint FOSS4G and State of the Map, and the
>> OpenStreetMap talks, workshops, community day shouldn't need to be strictly
>> free and open source (of course, it's nicer if they are, but I and other
>> people coming from the SotM side are likely still interested in hearing
>> about commercial and proprietary things which are happening with OSM).
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, at 3:57 PM, Martin Tomko wrote:
>>
>> We are not only OS – we are also FREE. So maybe the tools are free to use?
>>
>> M.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on
>> behalf of John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Monday, 30 July 2018 at 3:32 pm
>> *To: *"foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Call for workshops winding up
>>
>>
>>
>> Good point Andrew!
>>
>>
>>
>> My take on it is that the *primary* message of the workshop/presentation
>> would hopefully focus on geospatial open source/open data, OSM etc. But, if
>> it contains content related to proprietary software that should be OK. I
>> have definitely been thinking there would be an audience for 'hybrid'
>> solutions, possibly even could be a focused session on day 2 for OZRI
>> attendees to check out (another conversation for later?).
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd certainly be in favour of observing the 'open minds' philosophy when
>> we do our selections.
>>
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