[OSGeo-UK] Code by the Coast - OSGeo:UK Code Sprint

[Nick Bearman]

Hi everyone,

Code by the Coast went very well - see the website 
(https://uk.osgeo.org/code-sprint-2024.html) and (forthcoming) 
newsletter for some more write-up. We had 18 people attending, and 
contributing to a number of projects.

On Tue 30th July 2024, we had a great day at Code by the Coast, at The 
Heights, Portland, Dorset. OSGeo:UK’s latest code sprint brought 18 
people together to work on a number of FOSS4G projects, including Terra 
Draw and GIFramework Maps.

“The code sprint let us introduce GIFramework Maps to new developers and 
will help us to start growing the community for the project. We looked 
at some important topics including getting the application to translate 
into other languages like Welsh.
“On behalf of the development team, we’d like to thank everyone that 
took time to work with us and look forward to working with you and 
others in the future.”
GIFramework Maps Team

“The codesprint was a great opportunity to get people familiarised with 
Terra Draw and improve the onboarding experience onto the project. We 
had five pull requests in total, focusing on documentation and testing 
of the application. We also found a bug with the OpenLayers adapter 
which wouldn’t have been uncovered and diagnosed without the help of the 
participants (it was a Windows only issue!).”
James Milner, Terra Draw

We also progressed the registration of Terra Draw, GIFramework Maps and 
XYZ as OSGeo Community projects, and spent a bit of time looking at OGC 
API Standards including EDR (Environmental Data Retrieval) and the 
Marine Tools QGIS Plugin.

Along with the great coding and networking, we also had some lovey views 
in an excellent venue. It was rather warm though, but The Heights rose 
to the challenge and provided us with iced coffee!

Many thanks to both OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo and Addresscloud for sponsoring 
the event, and for those participants who paid for their own tickets - 
we couldn’t have done it without you!

We originally has 26 signups, but only 18 people turned up. So in effect 
we have lost a bit of money on this - with people signing up for a free 
place, but not then turning up. In the future we'd recommend some way of 
minimizing this - whether it is a deposit scheme (you get your money 
back if you turn up), a token payment (£10) or something similar. 
However it was still a successful event and I am very happy that we 
chose to run it.

Best wishes,
Nick.

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Nick Bearman
+44 (0) 7717745715
nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk

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