Cape Town day2
My lightning talk yesterday went pretty well, there is a flickr photo of me stating “Steven gave a great lightning talk obituary for MapBuilder at the Plenary session.” There was a wonderful talk by Schuyler, which fortunately is videotaped, but due to the insane slow internet I haven’t seen yet. Also fun was the talk by Ed Parsons from google. He talked (amongst others) about Map Maker and a fairly though discussion resulted about OSM, map maker and data sharing. The interesting bit is that they’re not against sharing their data, it is just that they don’t have a proper license to do so (nor does OSM for that matter). It will be interesting to see what is going to happen in this space. Apparently the lawyers think that it is all public domain and don’t fancy writing a proper CC/FOSS-style license for geodatasets. They state that geodata are facts and facts are not copyrightable.
Unfortunately today was slightly less successful, apparently quite some presenters couldn’t make it after all and three of the talks I was looking forward to weren’t there. SO hopefully the BOF on openlayers and extjs will be better. Interesting projects to look into at home so far are: QGIS-mapserver and Mapfaces.
Foss4g 2008; Cape Town
I’ve arrived in Cape Town to attend the foss4g conference which is taking place there. I’m supposed to give a lighting talk on the closure of Mapbuilder development. But it is not entirly clear where and when this will happen. All in good time I guess 
So far I’ve registered and are now waiting for my first workshop on Geonetworks.
Wiion – the movie
I’ve created a movie about the wiion game mentioned before. The movie only shows the process of finding and repairing one leak, in the real game there are a total of 3 leaks in 3 out of 4 different maps. We got green light for buying a new camcorder and I hope the next movie I’ll show will be shot on the Canon HF11 
The movie, voiced over by Geodans own Barry White