Open Geo Data/At WsFii

This is an outline of proposed activities in an Open Geodata 'strand' of the WsFii congress positied for September/October 2005.

As part of a weekend public conference session this could take the form of two 90-minute sessions, featuring several presentations roughly on a theme, and half the time for discussion.

A hacking session later in the week with any number of people that we could keep on, and collaboration online, would be ideal.

Other WSFII sessions
There is some intersection here with free networks / CommunityWifi and a short project on spatial services for network mapping and planning would be interesting.

Work on PublicDomainTaxonomies for classifiying spatial information, and sharing metadata about things that are represented in maps and models.

Outcomes
There are various OpenSourceGIS LiveCD efforts and it could be interesting to build on one with the projects represented at WsFii.

A mini-proceedings of the sessions and an development of the ideas coming from them, intended for publication as a piece of the Communications of the UO

People
Open source GIS and open geodata software developers and 'activists':


 * Petter Reinholdsen (NO) navsys
 * Steve Coast (UK) openstreetmap
 * Matt Amos (UK) openstreetmap
 * Richard Fairhurst (UK) geowiki
 * Schuyler Erle (US) mapping hacks
 * Rich Gibson (US) mapping hacks
 * Jo Walsh (UK) Faculty of Cartography
 * Saul Albert (UK) University of Openess
 * Hugh Barnard (UK) big wave heuristics
 * Bernhard Reiter (DE) FreeGIS / FFII
 * Benjamin Henrion (BE)
 * Shekhar Krishnan (IN)
 * Chris Holmes (US) geoserver
 * Drew from Zhrodague wifimaps
 * Everyone at openguides
 * Tim etc from QGIS
 * Someone from bbbike
 * Dirk-Willem Van Gulik (NL)
 * Frank Warmerdam (US)

Any suggestions appreciated...