<div dir="ltr">Hi!<div><br></div><div style>A few additions to the mail of Ilia Zverev aka Zverik</div><div style><br></div><div style>In 2011 quite a few participants of the russian OSM forum took part in the SOTM-EU conference in Vienna. It was an excellent opportunity for us to meet both OSM "celebrities" and ordinary OSM members.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Last year SOTM was in Japan, this yeart it will be in England with complicated visa procedure for us. OSM community both in Russia and Estonia seems to be a closed and isolated circle with a very few new members each year. So we suggest to break the isolation through an internatinal OSM meet-up (or mini-conference) in Estonia.</div>
<div style> </div><div style>Let's call it for now SOTM Baltic. Zverik mentioned that we had held a one day local mini-conference in Moscow a year ago. Around 20 people attended that event. It didn't require many organisational efforts. The main requirement was to find a room for the event. I suppose the SOTM Baltic would be an event of the same scale.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I expect that OSM members from Tartu, Tallinn, Sankt Petersburg, Moscow, Riga and Helsinki might come to the SOTM Baltic.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Looking forward to your feedback.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Vladimir Elistratov aka vvoovv</div></div>