Reviving this topic in 2021.
What happened: we thought we would do this as a part of MozFest 2021 – happens in Amsterdam, and the city of Amsterdam is a partner in NGI. To everyone’s surprise, MozFest turned us down. So now we are back to the drawing board.
Today we had a meeting of the NGI Forward research task force, and we decided:
- Interdisciplinary, in the MoN tradition: ethno/anthro people on one side, datasci people on the other. EDGE to target more the anthro crowd; we could even involve @amelia’s students at OII, or ask the UCL crowd. DeLab to connect us to the datasci crowd, @krystof and @Michal have their own course in datasci.
- Hackathon to be online, not physical. Also, to be spread over several days (one week? two?)
- Kickoff in late March/early April
Next steps:
- Format design (with @hugi, @amelia, @nadia and whoever wants).
- Putting up a minisite (deadline: end of February). This contains the info for participants, including links to datasets; facilities for signups and team formation, etc.
- Outreach and communication (everybody).
Works?