Sponsors: Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand Geospatial Office, and the Spatial Sciences Institute. Support from IBM.
What: Mash Up 2008 is an event that brings together New Zealand's leading technical experts and budding enthusiasts in combining information sources in innovative ways to present and examine social, economic or environmental issues with spatial analysis capability.
The Golden Rule: We encourage collaboration and require documentation of resources. Please acknowledge all of your project resources (people, data, technology, standards) with metadata. We recommend the ANZLIC metadata profile v1.1: http://www.anzlic.org.au/metadata/
Please note the following updates: We are still working to finalising the rules (it's a work in progress!). We have already learnt lots from the valuable feedback we have received already. However, we want to get the rules right - rather than jeopardising this opportunity by kicking off the mash up before we're ready. So rather than using the bar camp to present beta version of your mash ups (as previously proposed), we would like use the bar camp as a opportunity to discuss, agree, and finalise the rules. We would like to discuss whether we are creating a space that encourages the sharing of ideas (collaboration). Are the right incentives in place for this opportunity to collaborate? For example, are we including potentialy valuable propriatary ideas from the big companies? We think that the best way to answer these types of questions about how we set up the mash up is to talk with you people who're interested in participating. For those of you who are so enthusiastic that you've started your mash up already, fear not. You're efforts are not in vain! Although the focus of the bar camp is no longer to present your efforts and spark ideas off others, the mash-up will be started following the bar camp. And participant can discuss, amongsts other things, when entries need to be submitted.
