<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Steve,</div><div><br></div><div>It was great having you in Grand-Bassam and the interview style of keynote, Merci. We would have wished for a board member to be present at SOTM Africa but wasn't possible. May be this could be better thought of on how the board can better participate in SOTM labelled events physically, Wikimedia is an example IMHO. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Notwithstanding SOTM Africa 2019 has been greatly supported by OSMF Board which is worth mentioning. We very much appreciate it. Thanks <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 25 nov. 2019 à 16:21, Oleksiy Muzalyev <<a href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi Steve,</div>
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<div>Could you, please, share some practical
information about visiting Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire? Perhaps,
at your blog?</div>
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<div>How did you fly there? How did you get
to the hotel in Grand-Bassam? Did you rent a car? Did it have a
manual or an automatic transmission? Or have you taken a taxi? Was
the hotel expensive?<br>
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<div>I've been only in one country in
Africa, in Mauritius. It is the most prosperous African country,
and it is on a large island. I've never been at the continental
Africa.</div>
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<div>Do you have an advice for people who
plan a visit to Africa? Perhaps you could share some impressions
about the conference and about Cote d’Ivoire in general? It would
be very interesting to read such an article, probably, with some
photos or even videos about this conference.</div>
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<div>I hope that I assume it correctly that
you attended it physically, not via a TeleLink.</div>
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<div>With best regards,</div>
<div>Oleksiy<br>
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<div>On 23-Nov-19 22:15, Steve Coast wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today I attended SOTM Africa in
Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was a genuinely wonderful experience
both for me personally and for OSM. It was organized by both
locals and many francophones. People attended from a diverse
set of African countries and beyond, and they’re doing an
enormous amount of work to make the map in Africa better. The
conference had multiple tracks and many great talks and
people. I want to thank them for what I saw.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the tangential things that grabbed
me was <a href="http://africabees.com/" target="_blank">
http://africabees.com/</a> - using drones to map places in a
distributed way. Not to distract from
<a href="https://www.opendronemap.org/" target="_blank">https://www.opendronemap.org/</a>
which was also represented and awesome.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every SOTM should have at least one board
member present. I’ve already sent my board 2019 questions in,
but, I think sending board members to all the SOTM conferences
is an obvious thing and I’d push for if elected. It’s
something that should be required. I’m very happy to be wrong
but I didn’t meet or see any OSMF board members who attended.
It’s confusing, what is more important than attending SOTMs
for the board? We can do better.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In any case, please consider attending
remote SOTMs, even if it’s a long journey. The positivity and
energy was wonderful to experience and it comes on top of a
wonderfully different culture.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steve<u></u><u></u></p>
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