European GIS Code Sprint
From an email by Andrea Antonello:
Dear friends, dear colleagues,
we would like to raise to you all the following proposal of an European FOSS-GIS developers meeting by the end of November (kind of follow-up of the Canadian Code Sprint in September).
The event is the "European GIS Code Sprint" organized as a post-event of the SFScon 2007 held in Merano, Italy.
Planned Dates are:
- 16-17 Nov 2007: South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2007
- 18 Nov 2007 (Sunday): Outdoor GIS data collection for Free data set
- (somewhere in the nice Alps of South Tyrol, Italy)
- 19-21 Nov 2007: GIS Code Sprint event
The organisation of the event would be made by the Free Software Center in Bolzano.
The Sprint would mainly have the aim to bring different projects to know each other and build up some standard interaction, let the teams of each project meet, discuss, design and code together fulltime and non-remotely for a few days, and obviously also do some bugfixing. We would like to invite also power users in order to work on documentation, translation and even minor issues.
In parallel, there is the desire to collaborate on the creation of a free dataset by wandering in an ordered way through a defined region of the South Tyrol with GPS. The final dataset should contain as many data as possible, as for example the new OSGeo NC dataset of the GRASS book does. Moreover climatic and hydrologic/hydraulic data should be integrated in order to support different analyses.
Time is rather short and we would like to understand how much interest there is in such an event and more or less how many developer would like to attend.
We feel that there is a huge need for a developer meeting that could bring together different projects, that really need to interact if they want to have a glorious future.
Please give us possibly soon a (whatever) feedback!
With warmest regards,
Andrea Antonello Markus Neteler