<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-0f677534-3a2c-37ff-4ccc-5446c963ee1e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello, Everyone! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bengaluru is getting ready to host State of the Map Asia[0] this year. We’re excited to bring the conference to the garden city of India during </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">November 17th –18th</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore[1]. We'll have participants from around the world to discuss challenges, learn, and celebrate many years of mapping together.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Call for Proposals for the conference is open until </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">June 10th midnight</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.[2] We are focusing on the growing OSM communities in the region — both mappers and users of the data. We invite inclusive and diverse participation to broaden our understanding of the OSM community, and encourage a dialogue driven by the unique needs of users in the Asia region. If you have a great workshop idea, a story about working with OpenStreetMap in your local community, or a project that you want to share with us, we would love to hear from you, please apply[2]! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The conference operates as a space for collaboration and strengthening the community. We also understand that it is expensive to fly around the world to support the community. However, we believe financial constraints should not be the reason we don’t get to interact with you. In hopes of helping you out a little more, we offer scholarships to support participants to attend the conference[3]. The last date to apply for scholarships is </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">11th May</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are interested in helping us support[4] travel and accommodation for participants from outside the host city, write to us at </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">stateofthemapasia (at) gmail (dot) com</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and we will provide you with all the information needed to support the conference.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For all the announcements around the conference follow us on our Medium publication[6] and Twitter[7]. Looking forward to seeing you all in Bengaluru!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cheers,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">State of the Map Asia Organising Team</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><hr><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[0] - <a href="http://stateofthemap.asia/">http://stateofthemap.asia/</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1] - <a href="http://bit.ly/sotmasia2018">http://bit.ly/sotmasia2018</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] - <a href="http://bit.ly/sotmasia-cfp">http://bit.ly/sotmasia-cfp</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[3] - <a href="http://bit.ly/call-for-scholarships">http://bit.ly/call-for-scholarships</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[4] - <a href="http://bit.ly/sotm-sponsorship">http://bit.ly/sotm-sponsorship</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[5] - <a href="http://bit.ly/blog-state-of-the-map-asia">http://bit.ly/blog-state-of-the-map-asia</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[6] - <a href="https://medium.com/state-of-the-map-asia">https://medium.com/state-of-the-map-as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