[OGDev] Upcoming Minneapolis.pm Talk

[Chris Prather]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Kake L Pugh wrote:

> On Wed 11 Jul 2007, "M.B.Gaved" <M.B.Gaved at open.ac.uk> wrote:
>> should we be sticking up all the presentations we've done into a
>> central collection somewhere for reference (and plundering when we
>> get put on the spot and ask to create a presentation quickly)?
>>
>> Happy to put up my Wikisym 06 presentation and paper.
>
> Yep, I think this is a good idea.  Maybe we could start by just having
> a page on the dev wiki where we link to these things?  I can provide
> hosting of papers/slides/etc if anyone needs it (as, I'm sure, can
> many others on the list).

Speaking of:

The talk I gave went well. The slides are (now permanently) available  
at http://twincities.openguides.org/mplspm_slides/index.html

I think I may have gotten some people interested in adding to the  
guide, and I certainly sparked an interesting discussion of Geodata  
and it's relative openness in the US vs in the UK. I also got an  
offer from Dave Rolsky who runs VegGuide.org for a dump of his data  
which is a very clean source of Vegan/Vegetarian restaurants  
(especially here in the Cities). I also got the feeling that he might  
be open to more inter-working between the guides and his website if  
we have a way to standardize our interstitial communications. He (and  
Ian both actually) suggested I try talking to some of the local media  
and Dave knew someone who might be interested in that vein. I may try  
to follow up on that sometime soon and start trying to pimp the Twin  
Cities guide some more.

-Chris