LocationTech/October10 2012

This is the monthly meeting for the LocationTech working group.

Time and Location

Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 9am EDT

See the conference bridge details

Minutes

Quick updates

• Updates: web site, top level project, members, committee meetings
  • October 26, 2012 is the deadline to sign up as a LocationTech Founder. Founders will forever be noted in LocationTech's about page.
  • Founders will be participating in media coverage, joint press releases, blogs, etc.
  • The Technology top level project for LocationTech has been approved & created. We're now ready to create projects.
  • The web site is on-line. It'll be roughly another week before it is ready for launch

(5 minutes)

Technology

OpenStreetMap - Alex Barth (Mapbox) - Watch the video

(20 minutes presentation via. Google Hangout & On-Air + discussion after)

Discussion Topics

• Architecture committee
• Industry survey
• 2013 events planning
  • Latinoware 2012 Oct 15th - Jody doing a keynotes on the value of joining a foundation
  • Possible event partnerships: OSGeo, Directions, IMIA, etc.

Attendees

The following people plan to attend:

• Andrew Ross - Eclipse Foundation
• Jody Garnett - uDig & OSGeo member
• Xavier Lopez - Oracle
• Craig Statchuk - IBM
• Heather Leson - Ushahidi
• Phil Bogden - RadiantBlue
• Frank Gasdorf - uDig (PSC)
• Geoff Zeiss - Between the Poles
• Thierry Badard - Spatialytics
• Chris Holmes, Eddie Pickle - OpenGeo
• Alex Barth - Mapbox
• Werner Keil - Independent consultant & Eclipse UOMo project lead

+ others unannounced. We had 37 people on the call.

Regrets sent:

• Tyler Mitchell - Actian
• Dave McIlhagga - DM Solutions Group
• Dave Sonnen - IDC & Consultant to Teradata
• Thierry Badard - Spatialitics