<div dir="ltr">Hi!<div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The conference SOTM Baltics will be held in 3-4 August (Saturday-Sunday) 2013 in Tartu, Estonia.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The conference page in the OSM-wiki: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SOTM_Baltics_2013" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SOTM_Baltics_2013</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Registration to the SOTM Baltics will be announced in this list as soon as possible.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">See you in Tartu at the SOTM Baltics 2013!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Vladimir Elistratov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladimir.elistratov@gmail.com" target="_blank">vladimir.elistratov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">http://doodle.com/anddmr2kpxwnmv77</a></div>
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</div><div>The discussion takes place in the talk-ee list: <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ee/2013-April/001434.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ee/2013-April/001434.html</a></div>
<div>If you'd like to take part in the discussion, subscribe here: <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ee" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ee</a></div></div>
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