[Ottawa_users] Code Sprint in June

[Dave McIlhagga]

Ottawa OSGeo'ers,

I'm not going to be able to make it tonight - so wanted to throw out  
an idea that i've been discussing with a few people to the group.  
Hopefully this can spawn some discussion over brews tonight.

This June has a couple of key events going on ... GeoTec is coming to  
Ottawa AND it will be DM Solutions Group's 10th Anniversary! Hard to  
believe I know ...

DM will have a booth at GeoTec (and will be organizing a heck of a  
good party. :) ) but in addition, DM would like to sponsor an  
opportunity for projects and their close communities to have 1-2 days  
for a code sprint, technical meetings/discussions etc.. here in  
Ottawa - either in advance of or after GeoTec. The Code Sprint in  
Victoria after FOSS4G was a huge success and with the conference  
headed for South Africa next September, I thought this may provide a  
good opportunity for some of the key developers in North America to  
get together.

I'm a committee member for GeoTec -- so if there is interest, I can  
push to have a strong OSGeo / Open Source presence at the conference  
given the number of folks who will likely be in Ottawa at that time.  
I'd encourage anyone coming to put forward abstracts for  
presentations and workshops.

I've also spoken to the folks at Carleton University from the Talent  
First Program -- and they too are keen to help sponsor, provide space  
etc...

Andrew / Ingres -- do you think Ingres could help out too in  
organizing something? Maybe a good time to get some of the GEOS  
players around the table?

I'm really just throwing this out there - looking for ideas, but I  
can definitely say that there are a number of things we at DM can do  
to help pull this off -- but of course this will require some  
significant help from the local OSGeo community to turn this into a  
raging success!!

Let me know what you think -- if everyone feels this has merit --  
perhaps we can organize to talk about this a bit more formally at the  
OSGeo Ottawa meeting in early November.

Dave


Dave McIlhagga
President & CEO
DM Solutions Group (DMSG)
dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca
p: 613-565-5056 x15
f: 613-565-0925


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