www.debian.org: please define a policy for event locations
Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it>
2011-12-02 14:34:00 GMT
tags 646150 + patch
thanks
Hi there!
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:39:45 +0200, Paul Wise wrote:
> [Please CC me in reply]
Done.
I have started to document this on a wiki page [1], I will wait one more
week before sending an RFC to the d-publicity <at> mailing list.
[1] <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Events/Policy>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Luca Capello wrote:
>> In the second case, AFAIK the current policy is "CITY, COUNTRY" and it
>> has been like this for the events since 1999, with some exceptions like
>> "PHYSICAL_LOCATION, CITY, COUNTRY" (with PHYSICAL_LOCATION being the
>> building or the institution) or "CITY, STATE, COUNTRY" (especially true
>> for some USA locations).
>
> I would like as much specificity as possible in the location
> information, possibly even including GPS co-ordinates of the
> reception/start point and or a link to OpenStreetMap or the map
> provided by the event organisers if any exists.
Fully agreed, if we want as much specificity as possible the
PHYSICAL_LOCATION should be included, so the tag would be (information
in brackets are optional):
[PHYSICAL_LOCATION,] CITY [(STATE_ABBREVIATED)], COUNTRY, GPS_COORDINATES
However, all these information can cause the line in the event page [2]
to be too long. Just imagine for FOSDEM 2007 [3] (discussion about the
date format is at #650378 [4]):
- [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
+ [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels,
Belgium, +50.812650;+4.380320
+ [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels,
Belgium, 50.812650 N 4.380320 E
+ [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels,
Belgium, 50°51'0"N 4°21'0"E
[2] <http://www.debian.org/events/>
[3] <http://www.debian.org/events/2007/0224-fosdem>
[4] <http://bugs.debian.org/650378>
Here my proposition which I will add to the wiki as well:
a) the requirement for the tag is the line above.
b) PHYSICAL_LOCATION should be a *single* building or institution,
without any comma, so in the example above not "Université Libre de
Bruxelles, Campus Solbosh", but "ULB Campus Solbosh".
c) GPS_COORDINATES must be present and in a standard form: despite me
not being able to find a reference [5], I would say that the form
should be 'DEGREES MINUTES SECONDS CARDINAL-DIRECTION' (with symbols
instead of spaces). FYI, Wikipedia's city page for Brussels [6] use:
* 50°51'0"N 4°21'0"E
when in a graphical browser (Iceweasel)
* 50°51'0"N 4°21'0"E / 50.85°N 4.35°E / 50.85; 4.35
when in a textual browser (w3m)
I do not know which map these coordinates should be linked to either:
the one linked to by Wikipedia is GeoHack [7], which seems a good
option also because it offers the possibility to create a link with
"custom" coordinates [8]. If we should choose a real map, then I
will go for OpenStreetMap [9].
[5] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system>
[6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels>
[7] <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/GeoHack>
[8] <http://toolserver.org/~geohack/>
[9] <http://www.openstreetmap.org/>
d) the event page [2] will show only the second and third fields, which
means CITY (plus STATE if present) and COUNTRY, while each specific
page [3] will have everything.
I stop here for today 
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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