@ldodds can you help me out with a missing memory? here in 2005 at WSFII there's an Open Geodata session with a panel including John Something at the National Archives, has an open license which formed the basis of the OGL, gets very into piano later. Forgetting surname, too many John Somethings in this world, want to offer the right credit!
https://saulalbert.net/project/the-world-summits-on-free-information-infrastructures/
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TIL that Internet Archive hosts a scanned copy of "Mapping Hacks". Restricted preview, you can log in to "borrow" it for an hour or 14 days. It's listed as "by Erle, @schuyler author" - three of us credited, many more contributed, who all have bios in the intro
https://archive.org/details/mappinghacks0000erle/page/395/mode/1up
My future self went looking for the piece i'm writing in 2003/4 on "What To Do If Your Government Is Hoarding Geographic Data"
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did i invent this memory of a group photo of open geo luminaries at the Where 2.0 conference in 2006, all wearing matching t-shirts that read
"geowanking
we put the L in A/S/L"
https://www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1532
or does anyone still have a copy of that photograph
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