<div dir="ltr">I am part of the organizing committee of State of the Map US this year. There is a great scholarship program to offset travel cost and the call for proposals is open. Check out the web site:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://stateofthemap.us/about/">http://stateofthemap.us/about/</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Yogesh योगि <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yogesh@karnatakaeducation.org.in" target="_blank">yogesh@karnatakaeducation.org.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>No SoTM from OSMF this year.. But
there'd be SoTM-US and SoTM-Scotland in June and October
respectively..<br>
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<p>The OpenStreetMap Foundation has been organising the annual
State of the Map (SotM) conference since 2007. These events have
proved popular with our community and beyond, and have grown
from a few dozen attendees to a high of 300 attendees at SotM
2013. This year we had two good bids to host SotM 2015, but
issues beyond our control caused concerns about whether we could
make this into a success. The SotM working group, with the
support of the OSMF board, has therefore agreed that there will
be no OSM Foundation organised conference this year.</p>
<p>As the OpenStreetMap community has grown over the last 10
years, so has the conference scene. Even without OSMF organising
a conference this year, there will still be a number of
OSM-centered conferences, including <a href="http://stateofthemap.us/" target="_blank">SotM US</a> at the UN’s New
York headquarters in June, and <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2015" target="_blank">SotM-Scotland</a>
in October. There are also many webinars, mapping parties, hack
events and socials <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events" target="_blank">planned</a>
for 2015.</p>
<div style="width:510px"><a title="UN General Assembly hall by Dan
McKay, on Flickr" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/434709325" target="_blank"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/149/434709325_3955e05f6f.jpg" alt="UN General Assembly hall" height="333" width="500"></a>
<p>SotM-US will be held at the UN
headquarters in New York, 6-8 June 2015 <br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/434709325/in/photostream/" target="_blank">(image
CC-BY 2.0 Dan McKay)</a></p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/StateoftheMap_Organizing_Committee" target="_blank">StateoftheMap
Organizing Committee</a> has taken on a number of new members
to support our efforts in 2015, 2016 and beyond. We are
currently drafting a proposal on the future of SotM in which we
are looking at the role of SotM within the project and how the
OSMF SotM relates to the various regional events. We already
have some views but we encourage you to share yours in the
comments below.</p>
<p>Preparations for State of the Map 2016 will be starting soon
and we encourage local groups who may be interested in hosting
SotM in their home country to contact us early.</p>
<p><i>Blog post by the StateoftheMap Organizing Committee</i></p>
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