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Yearly Archives: 2007
Flyer used during the “Palla 21 in Chicago” mission
To learn more about this ancient game, please see the “palla a 21/palla eh!” section on pibinko.org.
To learn more about the story of the palla a 21 game in Chicago, search for Chicago on pibinko.org o write to info@pibinko.org.
…So you thought you had nothing to do with INSPIRE…
This was a presentation co-authored by Giacomelli and Cavallini (prepared 90% by Giacomelli), with the idea of representing the point of view of the Italian Chapter of the Open Source Geospatial Consortium (OSGEO) , also known as GFOSS.it, for which I served as the communications manager between 2007 and 2009.
For your information if you are not in the European geomatics field: INSPIRE is a Directive published in 2007 concerning Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe.
Initially I proposed “So you thought you had nothing to do with INSPIRE” as an actual session for the conference to be held on July 4-5-6 luglio in Porto, Portugal. Eventully I had only one abstract sunmited (from Brasil!), and several “expressions of difficulty” to understand the sense of this Directive by many experts who in theory should have been seeing it as a great support to their activities. So the session was reconfigured as a single presentation, which is available here:
Some anecdotes:
- The image in the final slide is the logo which I designed for the Geographic Information Systems lab of the Centre for Research, Development, and Advanced Studies in Sardinia, when I went to work there in 1997. The logo was hand-drawn, and then digitized.
- during the conference social dinner I was asked by the organizers to arrange a screening otff “The Revenge of the Killer Chihuahua and of the Zombies”. This was set up at any bar downtown Porto, and the header picture portrays a moment of the show (if you would like to see the movie, it is now available in streaming).
Palla a 21: Clearing the Field
Palla 21 Master Tournament
Palla a 21: a primal primer
Torniella with the Farma Valley in the background, from above the soccer field (2007)
Full-resolution image (6144×1736, 1 Mb)
License: Creative Commons – Attribution – Share Alike (CC BY-SA 4.0) + CNUQLPLC.
For the attribution:
- online: “<a href=’http://www.pibinko.org’>Andrea Giacomelli aka pibinko</a>“
- offline/hard-copy: Andrea Giacomelli aka pibinko
June 3, 2007: RAI Radio Due, L’Altro Lato
(MP3) , 7’53”, 7 Mb
Palla 21: the rules according to Mario and Claudio, aka Bob
Palla a 21 demonstration and prize draw for the “pro Chicago” lottery (in Torniella)
PDF flyer , 1 Mb.