[Edinburgh-pm] New open-tech lighting-talks meetup

[Anthony Randell]

Hi,

Q1 -Yes, sounds like fun, be nice to see folk again!
Q2 - Could talk about collating gis tree data for planning tree planting in
Wales; it's open data on open GIS platforms but likely to be longer than 5
minutes

https://datamap.gov.wales/maps/woodland-opportunity-map-2021/


On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 11:50, Miles Gould <miles at assyrian.org.uk> wrote:

> *tap tap* this thing still on?
>
> A couple of friends and I are trying to put together an evening of
> five-minute lightning talks for early March, to be hosted in Codebase (and
> streamed online, but we really want to make it an in-person event like in
> the Before Times insofar as possible). We're soliciting talks on open tech,
> defined very broadly: if there's a cool open-source project you want to
> show off, or open data source that people might find useful, or some aspect
> of licensing that isn't widely understood, or - you get the idea - then
> we'd love to hear about it! It doesn't have to be something you've worked
> on personally, it's fine if it only runs on Windows/AWS/other proprietary
> platform, it just needs to be open in some way. If the first night goes
> well, we're hoping to make it a monthly event, maybe mixing up lightning
> talks with some longer ones.
>
> So, two questions:
>  - Are you interested in attending such an event? (in-person or virtually)
>  - Are you interested in giving a talk?
>
> Cheers,
> Miles
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