On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 2012/11/28 Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org>: > > WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and > > bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are > > there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in > > Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I > > know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other > > options as well. > > Hi, > > Sorry for bringing up this thread again so late, anyway Wikimedia > Italia has found a partner who is willing to organize such an event: > the "Bruno Kessler Foundation"[1] (FBK). > FBK is a research centre in Trento (Italy), which is already active in > the field; they are also maintaining the Italian version of > DBpedia[2]. The event will be held in Trento. > They are rather flexible about the dates, but we are suggesting to > organize it around the Wikimedia Conference (the days just before or > just after the conference) so to focus our efforts in that period; in > this way we could also profit from the fact that some people from the > WMF staff will already be in Italy (since the WMConf will be held in > Milan). > Also, we think that organizing it before April will not give a > sufficient notice to other developers who may be interested in > participating. > We already contacted the Italian OSM community which will help to to > get in touch the international community. > > Is this ok for you, can we start make it moving? =) > Anyone know if this is happening or not? Sometime around the chapters meeting seems as good a time as any. Or maybe attached as a few days before/after the Amsterdam hackathon. (/me not organizing anything, though) I think there will be little overlap between attendees of the chapters meeting and this, whereas I think there's a bit of overlap with the hackathon. Problem is I am not aware of anyone willing to organize anything around the hackathon. Advantage of what Christian proposes is that someone is willing to host and help organize it. :) The longer time goes by without picking a date, the more likely people like me can't come as something else will come up and then they are busy. Cheers, Katie > > Cristian > WM-IT > > [1] http://www.fbk.eu > [2] http://it.dbpedia.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- @wikimediadc / @wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l