Note one of the names of the contributors in the current release: Fix OpenStreetMap project name. (@Firefishy <https://github.com/Firefishy>)
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Sajjad Anwar <m...@sajjad.in> wrote: > 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 >
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