[LA.pm] Dataplace.org in la.pm booth at SCALE?

[Todd Cranston-Cuebas]

I'm getting mixed reviews here, which I would expect. There are some who
think this would be a great thing. Others have off the list contacted me
expressing some concern about having an app that isn't open-source and
we really don't know how much they would be willing to divulge about the
site "guts" at the booth.

I'm sorry all, but I've decided to not have Dataplace be in the la.pm
booth because of the potential for the commercial/non-commercial
controversy. Also, I am concerned that the people at SCALE were so
generous to offer us the booth free of charge and I want to stick to
their rules. I didn't mean to cause confusion, but the responses have
been mixed so I don't really want to force the issue.

Thank you all for your input.

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia Kiser [mailto:cnk at caltech.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:44 AM
To: Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Cc: losangeles-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Dataplace.org in la.pm booth at SCALE?

Quoting Todd Cranston-Cuebas <Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at ticketmaster.com>:
> Does anyone have any objections to the people at dataplace.org having
a
> computer up in the la.pm booth demonstrating a perl application? One
of
> their engineers has volunteered to attend and talk about the
development
> of the dataplace application. The demonstrator is a paid contractor
who
> worked on the site for the Fannie Mae Foundation. You can find out
more
> info about the foundation at:
> http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/about/index.shtml

I had a look at this when it first came up as a possible SCALE demo
piece. Very cool! And it makes a good response to folks who are
considering jumping ship to Ruby because of Rails. Lots of the cool
web 2.0 GIS stuff is shown on this site. And as a tie in, can we get
at tech talk by some of the folks who put this site together? If so,
it would be a nice way to advertise the group's cool talks. 
-- 
Cynthia Kiser
cnk at caltech.edu