[open-science] OSWG + OKFest ?

Thu Mar 6 19:17:20 UTC 2014

ah, what the heck -- here you go

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EuDAGdh1pHFozVqZq5XLItJs0HOEVibtgRE9gRkVjng/edit?usp=sharing

have at it.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:54 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stefan,
>
> Do you want to take the lead in drumming up a Google Doc with these ideas?
> We can then hammer at it and add it to the bin of proposals due in less
> than two weeks. We've got to move fast. Sorry, I am volunteering you, but I
> am slammed with stuff right now -- a constant stream of meetings and
> workshops (actually, am on the road right now).
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Stefan Kasberger <mail at stefankasberger.at>wrote:
>
>>  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> 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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