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Sorry but no.<br>
<br>
SOTM is organized and funded by the OSMF. SOTMEU is not. The OSMF
have a financial and moral responsibility to make SOTM a success.
Unfortunately the prevailing attitude is that people should go to
SOTMEU or SOTM not both, so any advertising of SOTMEU is sadly
taking away from SOTM. And, frankly, the extremely negative view of
attending SOTM I've heard multiple times from people in the EU does
not help your case.<br>
<br>
As the person who named the conference and started it (with help!) I
would very much like SOTMEU to succeed, of course! But, not at the
expense of the conference that the board is responsible for. We have
to make SOTM a success. It's wonderful that SOTMEU is doing well,
I'm looking forward to attending and speaking, but we have a direct
responsibility for SOTM.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
<br>
On 6/3/2011 10:45 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote:
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<p>+1</p>
<p>Met vriendelijke groet,</p>
<p>Milo van der Linden</p>
<p>verzonden vanaf een smartphone met onhandig toetsenbord.
Typefouten? Vergeef mij!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Op 3 jun. 2011 19:08 schreef "Michael
Kugelmann" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:MichaelK_OSM@gmx.de">MichaelK_OSM@gmx.de</a>>
het volgende:<br type="attribution">
> Am 27.05.2011 06:12, schrieb Kai Krueger:<br>
>> as part of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a> frontpage reorganisation
discussions,<br>
> <br>
> BTW:<br>
> I'm not 100% shure whether this is the best ML for this but
this thread <br>
> seems to be a good point to link to...<br>
> <br>
> On the frontpage there is an "advertisement" for the SOTM
in Denver in <br>
> September. This is basically very OK.<br>
> Although the next big OSM conference is the SOTM-EU at
Vienna. <br>
> Additionally SOTM-EU takes place before the SOTM in Denver.
And I think <br>
> for the biggest part of the European OSM contributors
(which I guess are <br>
> biggest part of OSM contributors) the SOTM-EU is much more
important <br>
> than the SOTM in Denver due to the long distance.<br>
> For my point of view it would be nice to have an
advertisement for the <br>
> SOTM-EU also being present on the front page.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Michael.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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