OpenStreetMap/OSM-Wikimedia event

This page is for the preparation and discussion about a OpenStreetMap-Wikimedia event about better integration between OSM and Wikimedia projects.

Idea

The idea of organizing an event for OSM and MediaWiki developer and people from the projects started from this e-mail from Erik on Wikitech-l:

Hi folks,

it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).

To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.

WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
options as well.

Cheers,
Erik

Current possibilities

Several people and groups expressed their interest in organizing such an event:

• Wikimedia Italia proposed to co-organize the event with the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) in Trento in April;
• Wikimedia Denmark is looking forward to co-locate the event with Open Source Days in March;