<p dir="ltr">Hi Michael,</p>
<p dir="ltr">The call for venues is opened by the OSMF board not the SotM team (in reality it is Henk and he sits on both teams).</p>
<p dir="ltr">We've opened it earlier this year due to feedback from SotM Birmingham. At this stage the most important thing is to demonstrate that you have a local team able to support. A venue would be great but not essential (hopefully a year in advance in a large city still leaves lots of suitable venues left).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Rob</p>
<p dir="ltr">P.s If it turns out to be too much of a challenge I guess the deadline will just have to slip back beyond SotM 2014.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 Oct 2014 01:53, "Michael Kugelmann" <<a href="mailto:MichaelK_OSM@gmx.de">MichaelK_OSM@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 15.10.2014 19:46, Rob Nickerson
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State of the Map conferences are a great way to bring the
community together, reach out to new members and promote
innovation. I am delighted to see that the OpenStreetMap
Foundation have committed to continuing State of the Map in
2015. <br>
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The OSMF annual SOTM complements local SOTMs {EU, US,
Scotland, etc} and to me one of the big benefits is that the
Foundation remains committed to taking SOTM to new places. Now
it's your chance to host :-)<br>
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<div>The call for locations for SOTM 2015 is now open:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2015/Call_for_venues" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2015/Call_for_venues</a><br>
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<div>So why are you still reading this, get bidding :-)<br>
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<div>Regards,<br>
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<div>Rob<br>
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<div>SotM 2013 (Birmingham) local team<br>
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<br>
this email is addressed to the SOTM working group of the OSMF. Maybe
"<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:team@stateofthemap.org" target="_blank">team@stateofthemap.org</a>"
is the wrong email-adress because I don't want to address the
persons working at the 2014 conference. But there is no other
address given at the web page of the OSMF...<br>
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The issue I want to raise: I'm a litte astonished about the timeline
given.<br>
* the CFL was opened on the 15th of October<br>
* the CFL closes on the 2nd of November<br>
This is just about two weeks to make the foundations of a big
worldwide conference??? Don't you think this might be somehow a
little short?<br>
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You could argue "you had one year to get things right". OK, but how
realistic is this? For most of the conferences run voluntarily it is
difficult to have planings going along longtime in advance, w/o a
trigger usually nothing starts.<br>
And If you say "but we want to announce the location for 2015 at the
2014 conference": then you simply should have opened the CFL
earlier...<br>
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Just my 2 cents,<br>
Michael.<br>
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PS: IMHO 4 weeks seems to be a really good timeframe for a CFL for
the SOTM...<br>
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