<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Jorge Gustavo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgr@osgeopt.pt">jgr@osgeopt.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Steve,<br>
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i) The exact location is a good question :-)<br>
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We have two options: one major city like Lisbon or Oporto, nice to visit, or a smaller city where people will stay together, with less distractions.<br></blockquote><div><br>I would love to come this year, and any of these options would be fantastic.<br>
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Since SOTM is a community event, we are more interested to go to a smaller city, where we can find facilities for much less money and even for free. Everybody can walk to the conference site, and people will mostly eat and stay all together.<br>
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If the event goes beyond the 300 participants, it's no so easy to stay in a smaller city (accommodation, large auditorium, etc), but we are using 300 as the expected number of participants.<br>
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But I can answer with a question: what people prefer? Large city, maybe able to capture more participants also interested in visiting the city, or a smaller city like Aveiro or Guimaraẽs?<br>
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ii) Dates. You didn't ask, but we should organize the SOTM around July. We need the exact dates, to allocate the space soon as possible. We suggest:<br>
- OSM design and code sprint: July, 8 - 12 (< 20 part.)<br>
- OSM conference: July, 13 - 14 (+- 300 part.)<br>
- OSMF general assembly (for OSMF members): July, 15 (morning) (< 50 part.)<br>
- OSM board meeting: July 12 or 16. (< 10 part.)<br></blockquote><div><br>FYI - Wikimania 2012 is July 12-15. We had a good size mapping party and turnout of OSM mappers at Wikimania 2011, and certainly hope to repeat that this summer.<br>
<br><a href="http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org">http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org</a><br><br>If SOTM could be later in July, that would be super duper awesome for people who want to attend both.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Katie<br>
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a) Should we keep our suggesting of doing the conference on Friday and Saturday? (do minimize impact on our daily jobs, or people prefer to have the weekend to do other things?)<br>
b) Should we use 3 days for the conference? 2+1/2 conference + 1/2 assembly?<br>
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We didn't closed these issues to make SOTM 2012 more closed to what people want. So, please help us to shape our proposal to SOTM 2012.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Jorge<br>
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Em 13-11-2011 22:30, Steve Doerr escreveu:<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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I was going to say 'where?', but I see from your wiki<br>
(<a href="http://wiki.osgeopt.pt/index.php/Vamos_mapear_Portugal#SOTM_2012" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeopt.pt/index.<u></u>php/Vamos_mapear_Portugal#<u></u>SOTM_2012</a>) that<br>
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-8.66380001068&minlat=40.631040802&maxlon=-8.64379905701&maxlat=40.6510446167" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?<u></u>minlon=-8.66380001068&minlat=<u></u>40.631040802&maxlon=-8.<u></u>64379905701&maxlat=40.<u></u>6510446167</a><br>
and<br>
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-8.30372024536&minlat=41.4345877075&maxlon=-8.28371929169&maxlat=41.4545915222" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?<u></u>minlon=-8.30372024536&minlat=<u></u>41.4345877075&maxlon=-8.<u></u>28371929169&maxlat=41.<u></u>4545915222</a><br>
are being floated as locations.<br>
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On 13/11/2011 18:16, Jorge Gustavo wrote:<br>
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Since the SOTM 2012 call for venues is now open[1], we are willing to<br>
organize it in Portugal.<br>
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