[TCMUG] Web Apps Contest Summary

[Perry Nacionales]

Yay, thanks Kari for taking this one.  Thanks, too, Alison for a very nice
summary.  Sounds to me like we have a TCMUG meeting in October... ;)

-Perry

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Kari Geurts <Kari.Geurts at dnr.state.mn.us>wrote:

>  Hello folks,
>
> I wanted to let you know that I have submitted this as a BOF for the
> conference (See attached description). I invite all of you who are
> interested in this topic to please attend (6:30 - 7:30 Holiday Inn
> Ballroom). I think there will be plenty of time to discuss other open source
> topics as well.
>
> Hope to see you all at the conference.
> Kari
>
> Kari A. Geurts
>
> GIS Technical Specialist
> DNR Forestry
> Phone: 651-259-5275
> Email: Kari.Geurts at dnr.state.mn.us
>
> >>> "Alison Slaats" <aslaats at 1000fom.org> 9/18/2009 2:57 PM >>>
>
> Last week Perry asked for a summary of the discussion at the last meeting
> about the “open geo apps” contest idea.  Here is a summary of what I heard,
> and a couple more updates of developments since then.
>
>
>
> In 2008, MetroGIS had a user forum where ideas of services and apps were
> discussed.  One need was for more WFS.  The workgroup that formed to work on
> WFS discussed how the usual means of getting people/orgs to create, document
> and post web services was difficult because often there was no immediate
> business incentive to do so.  So, David Fawcett brought forward the idea of
> a contest modeled after the Washington DC Apps for Democracy contest (
> http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/). This contest cost $50 and resulted in
> $2.6M worth of iPhone, Facebook, web etc. apps.
>
>
>
> The workgroup thought this was a good idea, and took it back to the
> Coordinating Committee and Policy Board.  They loved the idea, but thought
> it was not fully baked.  So now the next stage is to form another workgroup
> to see if there is broader support for this idea.  Groups that were
> mentioned were: TCMUG, OSGeo, MnGeo, GIS/LIS …  MetroGIS has  $15K in the
> budget for next year – but they want to move forward together with other
> organizations to move this forward.
>
>
>
> At the TCMUG meeting, people seemed to like the idea.  It was mentioned
> that this would be a great **low risk** way to evaluate new technology
> applications using an organizations data; a good incentive to get services
> out the door and documented; a good way to facilitate creation of new and
> innovative web applications; and many more reasons.
>
>
>
> A few people volunteered to be part of the new workgroup – which was great!
>
>
>
> Since that meeting last week, Sally Wakefield & Alison Slaats met with the
> GIS/LIS board to discuss the idea.  They also liked it, and suggested a BOF
> meeting at GIS/LIS conference about it.  Perhaps this BOF could be aligned
> with the OSGeo BOF, or cover both topics, since I think there is an overlap
> there.
>
>
>
> Here are a few links for background on the DC contest:
>
>
>
> (The youtube one is pretty good.)
>
> http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/
>
> http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFOABlev3w
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> http://www.vimeo.com/4450950
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you have questions about the idea
>
>
>
> I’d love to hear from those who like to be a part of this workgroup and
> also if you think it would be good to have this as a BOF at GISLIS either
> combined or separate from the OSGEO/TCMUG one.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
> Alison
>
>
>
> *Alison Slaats*
>
> 1000 Friends of Minnesota
>
> 651-312-1000
>
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