[Noisebridge-discuss] New place locator

[munkeyfreenix batcat]

I think we're all guilty of the grand visions we don't have time for. I've
just learnt to give myself a reasonable time-frame before I consider a
project dead. But I did manage to sneak in the creation of a debian virtual
box and got mapserver running on it yesterday. was supposed to be working
too. shh!

To get a basic locator app together is almost trivial in terms of coding
(watch I'm going to choke on those words this week...) getting maps might be
a bit trickier. but once its in, then we have a platform to build upon and
we can have our own hacker gis for whatever we can imagine. i named the box
noisegish and I'm hoping maybe he can either live inside one of the servers,
or I will just move stuff over if they let me.

as for building, like I said, I am definitely down to build. but that sort
of thing requires some member meetings/discussion etc.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:03:52PM -0700, munkeyfreenix batcat wrote:
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> > > > Re: Google -- why not use the nb servers to run mapserver and have
> > > > our own GIS. its open source, and we can run GRASS GIS inside it
> > > > as well if we're feeling ambitious, script with pywps and we have
> > > > something really cool to build upon. then we could get
> > > > multispectral satellite photos and find location by the best
> > > > frequency spectrum. that was a joke. kind of.
> > > >
> > > > Re: building a barrier - it doesn't have to slide, and in fact we
> > > > could get some sound board and plywood and make little sandwiches,
> > > > mount them with some heavy duty hinges and a pulley so that they
> > > > can be pulled down and latched to the railing, or opened.
> > >
> > > These are great ideas!  I look forward to your implementation of them.
> >
> > Setting up a gis for noisebridge would be great and easy. creating the vm
> > right now to develop. I've been wanting to work on a gis server for
> awhile.
>
> Awesome!  I'm really glad to see interesting projects happen. :)
>
> > As of now, I'm not a member, and while I'd be more than happy to bring
>
> We get a *lot* of people who are really excited to suggest ideas, and
> even a fair number of people who are looking for someone to tell them
> what to do in fairly minute detail.  The part that we're missing is the
> people in the middle -- people who are interested in a project and
> devote time to making the infrastructure and planning happen.
>
> So I'm really happy to see people doing the grunt work on making
> projects start, and I'll continue to gently poke fun at people who have
> grand ideas but "no time to make them happen".  (And I'm as guilty of
> that as the next guy...)
>
> (I'm restraining myself from suggesting that we need Project Managers.
> Bad word!  Bad word!  Naughty hacker!  No 0day^Wcookie for you!)
>
> -andy
>
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