[open-science] OSWG + OKFest ?

[Stefan Kasberger]

Sounds like a very good idea, so I'm in. :)

On 2014-03-06 16:58, P Kishor wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I would be very happy to participate in a geohackathon of any sort
> really. I haven't thought of any specific idea as I have been focusing
> on text and data mining, but now that you have sparked this thread,
> y'know what would be nice -- to develop a set of tools that allow
> mining location info from unstructured text. There have been many
> projects that do this (Google, metacarta) but they are either not open
> source or haven't gotten the momentum.
>
> So, discovering lat/lon is easy. But, what if the text doesn't mention
> lat/lon but says "Detroit"? Or, what if the text says "10 miles sw of
> Su Zhou"?
>
> In any case, I would certainly be up for participating, and
> particularly enthusiastic if it builds into text mining.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Stefan Kasberger
> <mail at stefankasberger.at <mailto:mail at stefankasberger.at>> wrote:
>
>     Hey,
>
>     would love to do something around FOSSGIS, GeoData.
>     There were some people (Puneet,...) discussing of an hackathon for
>     this. Is there an update?
>
>     Cheers, Stefan
>
>
>     On 2014-03-06 06:22, Alexandre Hannud Abdo wrote:
>>     Ni!
>>
>>     What are the news, thoughts or proposals regarding open science at OKFest?
>>
>>     Should we coordinate, or should local groups start proposing activities
>>     by themselves?
>>
>>     Can we start listing this stuff on the wiki? Perhaps here:
>>
>>     http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Science/OKFest2014
>>
>>     (unfortunately the OKN wiki requires login and has a really really mean
>>     captcha, but for now we'll survive)
>>
>>     I saw the topic of OKFest2014 was listed in the last group call, which
>>     unfortunately I did not attend, but the pad says nothing in terms of
>>     what was discussed.
>>
>>     []s
>>
>>     ale
>>     .~´
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