[UN] [FOSS4G-Africa-private] UN GIS Hackathon

Wed Apr 12 08:28:45 PDT 2017

Thanks Gavin for the plans and budget forward (it clarified me a lot) and
thanks Ki-Joune for the suggestions.

I believe the important is that the Hackaton produce some tangible outputs
that are useful for the UN OpenGIS inintiative.

While porting in one day GeoTools/uDig to QGIS looked very difficult, the
suggested options of OSM and geoAnalyses looks very feasible.

Best,
maxi

2017-04-12 11:50 GMT+02:00 Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>:

> I forwarded to Maxi the mail I sent to most of this list on 4 April in
> which I outlined plans and budget.
>
>
> On 12 Apr 2017, at 09:08, Massimiliano Cannata <
> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:
>
> Dear Gavin and loc committee,
> could you please recap the amount you are requesting from the UN budget
> and for what activity?
>
> This is to better understand, since the UN committee money are allocate
> for UN Hackatons.
> So, sprint code and conference invited speakers is out of scope.
>
> Thanks for clarifying this aspect.
>
>
> Best,
> Maxi
>
>
>
> 2017-04-12 8:24 GMT+02:00 Massimiliano Cannata <
> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>:
>
>> My proposed alternative is:
>> use part of the money to invite a QGIS programmer expert that can guide
>> the developments.
>>
>> Alternatively lower the barrier and do something on documentation,
>> website development or similar...
>>
>> Il 12 apr 2017 7:38 AM, "Maria Antonia Brovelli" <
>> maria.brovelli at polimi.it> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Maxi, please, will you propose also  an alternative? What can be done in
>>> your opinion? Many thanks!!!!
>>> Good day,
>>> Maria
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Messaggio originale --------
>>> Da: Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
>>> Data: 12/04/17 07:22 (GMT+01:00)
>>> A: Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>
>>> Cc: Hae-Kyong Kang <hkkang at krihs.re.kr>, Jody Garnett <
>>> jody.garnett at gmail.com>, Ki-Joune Li <lik at pusan.ac.kr>, Maria Antonia
>>> Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>, un at lists.osgeo.org, 이기준 <
>>> lik at pnu.edu>, mapplus at gmail.com, Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>,
>>> Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>,
>>> foss4g-africa-private at lists.osgeo.org, Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com>
>>> Oggetto: Re: [FOSS4G-Africa-private] UN GIS Hackathon
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I partially agree with Tim. The bar is very high, it means having people
>>> that know how to QGIS programming.
>>>
>>> But it is not a sprint code, it is a UN hackaton so requested money
>>> should help advancing in the UN open gis initiative. Maybe you could use
>>> part of the money to invite and international QGIS programmer expert to
>>> help with this...
>>>
>>> Otherwise in my opinion it worth to organise a regular sprint code and
>>> ask money to OSGeo and not to the UN committee.
>>>
>>> My 5 lira..
>>> Maxi
>>>
>>> Il 12 apr 2017 12:31 AM, "Tim Sutton" <tim at kartoza.com> ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Wow there are many interesting tools in that repo  (
>>>> https://github.com/mapplus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools
>>>> _udig/tree/master/GeoTools/process-spatialstatistics/src/mai
>>>> n/java/org/geotools/process/spatialstatistics) but I think it is a bit
>>>> overambitious to try to take on something like that during a 1 day code
>>>> sprint. It assumes a lot of prior knowledge and sets a very high bar to
>>>> entry. I think we are better off looking for some low hanging fruit and
>>>> rather using a vehicle like GSoC to try to get a student to port those
>>>> tools over to QGIS Processing framework.
>>>>
>>>> Generally my experience with code sprints is that it does not work well
>>>> trying to dictate the agenda too much - generally people come in one of two
>>>> categories:
>>>>
>>>> 1) They already have their own pet project they are working on and they
>>>> come to share / learn / show
>>>> 2) They need to get onto the knowledge ladder and are basically looking
>>>> for mentorship for a day to help them get started
>>>>
>>>> Having a pool of ideas would be great and we can certainly put this out
>>>> there, but lets also see what serendipity delivers - it will usually bring
>>>> pleasant surprises....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>> On 11 Apr 2017, at 7:01 PM, Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Maria and Ki-Joune
>>>>
>>>> I think porting some geotools/uDig modules to QGIS would make for a
>>>> good challenge for competent developers
>>>>
>>>> Jeff, Tim. Christian, Ashleigh and any other LOC member interested in
>>>> getting involved in the code sprint and Hackathon please could you organize
>>>> around this
>>>>
>>>> - get some content up on the website elaborating the Hackathon
>>>> - promote it…
>>>>
>>>> Gavin
>>>>
>>>> On 08 Apr 2017, at 18:15, Ki-Joune Li <lik at pusan.ac.kr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> For further detail information, you may contact with Minpa Lee (
>>>> mapplus at gmail.com) or Hae-Kyong Kang (hkkang at krihs.re.kr).
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ki-Joune
>>>>
>>>> 내 삼성 디바이스에서 보냈습니다
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- 원본 메시지 --------
>>>> 발신: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
>>>> 날짜: 2017/04/08 23:02 (GMT+09:00)
>>>> 받은 사람: Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>,
>>>> foss4g-africa-private at lists.osgeo.org, un at lists.osgeo.org, Suchith
>>>> Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>, Massimiliano Cannata <
>>>> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>, Ki-Joune Li <lik at pnu.edu>, 'Sanghee
>>>> Shin' <shshin at gaia3d.com>, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>,
>>>> Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> 제목: Re: UN GIS Hackathon
>>>>
>>>> Dear All
>>>>
>>>> here the github address with the functionalities developed for UN Open
>>>> GIS:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> kindly provided by Ki-Joune Li.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Maria
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *----------------------------------------------------*
>>>> *Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli*
>>>> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
>>>> Politecnico di Milano
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *Da:* Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
>>>> *Inviato:* sabato 8 aprile 2017 12.58
>>>> *A:* Gavin Fleming; foss4g-africa-private at lists.osgeo.org;
>>>> un at lists.osgeo.org; Suchith Anand; Massimiliano Cannata; Ki-Joune Li;
>>>> 'Sanghee Shin'; Jeff McKenna; Jody Garnett
>>>> *Oggetto:* UN GIS Hackathon
>>>>
>>>> Dear Gavin
>>>> There are many functionalities developed by the Korean team within
>>>>  geotools that were specifically requested by UN for the UN Open GIS
>>>> Initiative.  They are freely available in github.  A good challenge could
>>>> be to work starting from those functionalities to add them in QGIS ( for
>>>> instance as plugins). This in my opinion is useful for the UN Open GIS
>>>> Project and can be easily  faced by students/young developers of the
>>>> hackathon.
>>>> Sanghee is part of the OSGEO Board and is strongly involved in UN Open
>>>> GIS Initiative. Therefore he can be the most representative person to come
>>>> to the hackathon.  But Jeff has a lot of experience in the whole initiative
>>>> as well.
>>>> The most important point is to have tangible results and to attract
>>>> many young talented people to this hackathon and give it a lot of
>>>> visibility.
>>>> Let us see what the other members of the committee suggest.
>>>> I hope to have the possibility of better discussing it on Monday
>>>> morning during our committee meeting. Will you or Serena attend it?
>>>> Have a nice week end!
>>>> Maria
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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Responsabile settore Geomatica

Istituto scienze della Terra

Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design

Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana

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