Henrion Benjamin a écrit :
Olivier Berger oberger@april.org [010515]:
Hi folks.
I'd like to submit one idea that we got recently of a system that could be used to visualize the vitality of the developers community in our areas, and could also serve as a tool to better know how to contact those of us who travel a lot for free software...
Btw, I added this project as a long term task on savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=156...)
Here is the little memo I wrote :
(ideas for a name : World Almost Real-time Developpers Positioning System)
This project aims at developing a system which would allow easy geographical representation of Free Software Developpers on the terrestrial globe maps. This would be a great way to represent the vitality of the Free Software community, as well as a contact tool which could help in joining people traveling alot.
A good example of such maps is on the debian website that uses Xplanet (xplanet.sourceforge.net).
The page is http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc, for those curious.
Great ! Exactly the kind of stuff I'd like to see... with some dynamics and customization of the views...
It could be possible but the onliest problem is data! I belive all of the tools exists (see Freegis.org).
Also what I think... not a big deal for the great hackers around here ;)
As for the data (you mean the localisation information of each volunteer member of the system ?)... we'll find a way to input (for instance by mail)...