[open-science] OSWG + OKFest ?

Stefan Kasberger mail at stefankasberger.at
Mon Mar 10 12:19:54 UTC 2014


unfortunately I also have not much time this week. i'm moving to berlin,
so lot of stuff needs to be done before.
is there someone else who wants to help? with 2-3 people i think it
should be possible.

cheers, stefan

On 2014-03-06 19:54, P Kishor 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 <mailto: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 <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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