<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi!</div><div><br></div><div>We've been discussing the idea of a regional mini-conference to be attended by mappers from Estonia, Russia, Latvia and Finland.</div><div>OSM community in our countries 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 international OSM meet-up (or mini-conference) in Tartu, Estonia. We coined the event "SOTM Baltics".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Event format: very unformal (it's more like UNconference than an academic conference): normal talks, lighting talks, "podium discussions", social event in a pub in the evening.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Why Tartu? We have mappers from Tartu who volonteered to find a room for the SOTM Baltics. Also, Tartu can be conveniently accessed from the largest cities in the Baltic countries: Tallinn, Helsinki, Sankt Petersburg, Moscow, Riga</div>
<div><br></div><div>Event fee: no or 10 Euro, to be decided.</div><div><br></div><div>SOTM Baltics dates: a weekend in July. The exact dates are to be decided via polling (see below)</div><div><br></div><div>How to get to Tartu from Riga with public transportation. There are 4 daily buses between Riga and Tartu that depart Riga at 8:40, 18:45, 22:45, 23:55. The journey takes around 4 hours. Tickets can be bought at <a href="http://www.luxexpress.eu/lv">http://www.luxexpress.eu/lv</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you'd like to attend the event, please take part in the poll to decide on the conference dates: <a href="http://doodle.com/anddmr2kpxwnmv77">http://doodle.com/anddmr2kpxwnmv77</a></div><div><br>
</div><div>The discussion takes place in the talk-ee list: <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ee/2013-April/001434.html">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ee/2013-April/001434.html</a></div>
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