Thought this would be interesting to some of you. If you are in Bangalore, you should go. I do have a feeling that they are trying to do something that OSM has already established. Worth having the conversation.
Cheers, Sajjad. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Soumya Deb <deblo...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:14 AM Subject: Mozilla Geolocation Pilot Project To: Sajjad Anwar <sajja...@gmail.com> Hi Sajjad, Mozilla Location Service team is kicking off a series of events in India, called "Geolocation in a Box". The primary purpose of the event is to understand location services with greater depth (checking out the existing wheels, before recreating), explore possibilities, gather feedback & connect with the developer community to build on top of it. This competes directly with Google Location Services et al. and as you can understand, it will need a lot of community backing to do so well. It's an open, public location service for all; and is from Mozilla, so it's as altruistic as it gets. The event targets to spread general awareness of the project, brainstorm & gather feedback from the people who has insights in this topic & then go on a short distributed trip to the city, with MozStumbler app on participant's android devices, to gather location data. We have pretty neat plans to reward the top contributors! ;) Following are the links you may wanna check out: Event Page: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/geolocation-in-a-box-bangalore/ Service Page: https://location.services.mozilla.com/ Bangalore Data: https://location.services.mozilla.com/map#12/12.9664/77.5666 Leaderboard of contributors: https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders As you have invaluable contributions & recognition in OSM, I request you to spread the word to the folks based in Bangalore, who can drop by the Red Hat office on this Saturday afternoon. Thanks in advance! -- Soumya Deb http://debs.io Twitter: @Debloper Open Source Evangelist -- Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in