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+### Mapnik Code Sprint 02 - Washington, DC, USA. 15-17 June 2012
+
+The Mapnik community is gathering for another code sprint to improve Mapnik, set the path for the future and to enjoy the company of other Mapnik developers.  
+
+You are invited.  Be part of it.  
+
+### When
+
+Friday through Sunday, 15 - 17 June 2012.
+
+#### Preliminary schedule
+
+- Friday evening: Meet and greet. Pub discussion.  Show and share.  
+- Saturday: Plans and teams.  Lots of coding.
+- Sunday: Lots of coding.
+
+### Where
+
+<pre>1714 14th Street NW
+_Rear Entrance_
+Washington, DC 20009</pre> 
+(map coming soon)
+
+### Why?
+
+Coding, documentation and fun.  The previous Mapnik code sprint in September 2010 was both great fun and a great success.  Bugs were squashed, capabilities were added, performance was improved and new friends and colleagues were discovered.  [Proof](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/MapnikCodeSprint_MCS01_Results) 
+
+This time, we'll tackle some more bugs, some of the lingering Top ten Cartography Wishes from last time, and perhaps knock out some awesome new Mapnik documentation for the ever-increasing user community.  
+
+### Top Ten Tasks
+
+Last time, the Top Ten* Advanced Cartography Wishes looked a bit like this.  Those that have been completed in the interim are struck-through. 
+
+http://www.slideshare.net/steve8/what-id-like-to-do-with-mapnik-4756837
+
+1) icon rotation: could also be used for amenity=viewpoint when tagged with viewing angles
+
+2) <strike>SVG icons: allow replacing colors (e.g. color a black icon in blue); have an alpha parameter</strike> (done)
+
+3) move icon a bit if it would collide with others
+
+4) replace an already placed icon with a collection icon when there is another one to be shown right there
+
+5) <strike>push lines apart so that there is a minimum distance between them</strike> (nearly done)
+
+6) <strike>be able to construct file names from tag values in XML (e.g. "symbol_file=parking.svg" should be mapped to e.g. ~/mapnik/parking.svg or http://example.com/parking.svg). Right now, people resort  to generating XML styles by a script.</strike> (done, see "PathExpressions")
+
+7) when there is a very curvy road, place the name along a smoothed line (when the text is not centered to the line but with a dy) (nearly done)
+
+8) <strike>multi-line text constructed from several tags, e.g. for peak name and height (can be done when you accept the same styling for these text fragments)</strike>
+
+9) stronger coupling between icon and text (maybe similar to the ShieldSymbolizer?) so that manual text dy tweaking is not required anymore (want to be able to say: "place this icon in size 20x20  and put the text in size 12pt five pixels below it")
+
+10) collapsing of little small areas with the same tags into a single big one (for e.g. a big forest), so that e.g. the name is drawn only once
+
+11) be able to suppress automatic text rotation (per style or layer) - contour lines should always be displayed so that the base line of the text points to the lower ground
+
+12) underlined text (for e.g. capitals)
+
+13) sometimes, peak names drawn in a half circle, would be 
+
+### Attending
+- Artem Pavlenko (UK), Mapnik Founder and Lead Developer
+- Dane Springmeyer (Oregon), Mapnik Lead Developer 
+- Richard Weait (Ontario)
+- add your name (and origin) here
+- ...
+
+### More tasks and interests
+Add your personal tasks and interests here.
+- Awesomeness (Artem)
+- Amazingness (Dane)
+- Mapnik documentation and tutorials (Richard)
+- add your tasks and goals
+- ...
+
+<sup>*</sup> FSVO "ten"