Monthly Archives: July 2007

July, 2007: Comcast Sports News covers Palla a 21 in Chicago

In the media, International

During our “palla a 21 from Tuscany to Chicago” mission, Comcast Sports News covered the story. They promised that they would send us a DVD copy of the report, but this never happened.

However, during an evening chill-out session in a Chicago bar, we actually saw the report being broadcast, and having a camcorder at hand we managed to record most of it from the screen. You can see it at 22’47” of our documentary.

For more information

From July 16 to July 21: Palla a 21 goes to Chicago / The official schedule

Events,
Data Luogo  
Date Time Location
July 16 11AM-12PM LaSalle Language Academy, 1734 N. Orleans
July 17 11AM-12PM LaSalle Language Academy, 1734 N. Orleans
July 19 4PM-5PM LaSalle Language Academy, 1734 N. Orleans
July 20 4PM-5PM LaSalle Language Academy, 1734 N. Orleans
July 21 11AM-12PM Daley Bicentennial Plaza, 337 E. Randolph Street

On the afternoon of July 21:

Special feature! Italian Card Games –
in the Playing card week for Come in and Play at the Chicago Tourism Center,
72 E. Randolph Street

 

…So you thought you had nothing to do with INSPIRE…

Maps, Talks

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:

2007_INSPIRE_Porto_pibinkoScarica

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).