Hey, Steve, Any suggestions as to good places to host about 10 geeks for a day or two while they work on improving the mapping code for the open-source software behind the Davis Wiki?
thanks, Graham Begin forwarded message: > From: Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 8 September 2008 02:03:27 PDT (CA) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Sycamore-Dev] Map Overhaul Coding Sprint > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would guess about 10 people including the coders, helpers and > spectators. Accommodation for larger would be nice. Anyone have > connections with the city it would be kinda cool if DCN or the city > would open a room for us. > > Of course I'm sure I can get us something on campus, just thought it > would be nice to get out into the city more. > > Proposed Dates: Oct 17-19 or Oct 24-26 > > Alex > > Jason Aller wrote: >> How about calling the page ["Map Improvement Project"]. How large a >> location >> is needed? About how many people do you anticipate participating? >> >> I'll help to whatever degree I can. >> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >wrote: >> >>> Howdy devs, >>> >>> I'm planning on hosting a coding sprint in Davis to overhaul the way >>> wikispot wiki's handle maps and locations. It will be 1-2 days, >>> likely a >>> weekend or something closely aligned in October, in Davis. >>> >>> I have an outline of what to do and a plan that's been tossing >>> about it >>> my head which I will outline in detail on wikispot later. The >>> brief idea >>> is to use OpenLayers for a nice AJAX interface with the base layer >>> being >>> OpenStreetMap. Wiki's will have the option to overlay local data, >>> Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and anything else they find on the web that >>> uses and OGC standard - WMS, WFS, etc. >>> >>> What I need from the community is volunteers to help me implement >>> it. >>> So we need coders, >>> a date, >>> a location, >>> some assistants for various tasks internet and non, >>> testers, >>> admins, >>> gnomes, >>> idea bubbles, >>> enthusiasm, >>> a name suggestion for a wikispot page about this event. >>> >>> Shoot me an email if you've got any of those, once we get a name >>> we'll >>> have a page. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Alex _______________________________________________ Sycamore-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.projectsycamore.org/ https://tools.cernio.com/mailman/listinfo/sycamore-dev
