[Osmf-talk] SOTM Africa

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Steve,

It was great having you in Grand-Bassam and the interview style of keynote,
Merci. We would have wished for a board member to be present at SOTM Africa
but wasn't possible. May be this could be better thought of on how the
board can better participate in SOTM labelled events physically, Wikimedia
is an example IMHO.

Notwithstanding SOTM Africa 2019 has been greatly supported by OSMF Board
which is worth mentioning. We very much appreciate it. Thanks



Le lun. 25 nov. 2019 à 16:21, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
a écrit :

> Hi Steve,
>
> Could you, please, share some practical information about visiting
> Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire? Perhaps, at your blog?
>
> How did you fly there? How did you get to the hotel in Grand-Bassam? Did
> you rent a car? Did it have a manual or an automatic transmission? Or have
> you taken a taxi? Was the hotel expensive?
>
> I've been only in one country in Africa, in Mauritius. It is the most
> prosperous African country, and it is on a large island. I've never been at
> the continental Africa.
>
> Do you have an advice for people who plan a visit to Africa? Perhaps you
> could share some impressions about the conference and about Cote d’Ivoire
> in general? It would be very interesting to read such an article, probably,
> with some photos or even videos about this conference.
>
> I hope that I assume it correctly that you attended it physically, not via
> a TeleLink.
>
> With best regards,
> Oleksiy
>
> On 23-Nov-19 22:15, Steve Coast wrote:
>
> Today I attended SOTM Africa in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.
>
>
>
> It was a genuinely wonderful experience both for me personally and for
> OSM. It was organized by both locals and many francophones. People attended
> from a diverse set of African countries and beyond, and they’re doing an
> enormous amount of work to make the map in Africa better. The conference
> had multiple tracks and many great talks and people. I want to thank them
> for what I saw.
>
>
>
> One of the tangential things that grabbed me was http://africabees.com/ -
> using drones to map places in a distributed way. Not to distract from
> https://www.opendronemap.org/ which was also represented and awesome.
>
>
>
> Every SOTM should have at least one board member present. I’ve already
> sent my board 2019 questions in, but, I think sending board members to all
> the SOTM conferences is an obvious thing and I’d push for if elected. It’s
> something that should be required. I’m very happy to be wrong but I didn’t
> meet or see any OSMF board members who attended. It’s confusing, what is
> more important than attending SOTMs for the board? We can do better.
>
>
>
> In any case, please consider attending remote SOTMs, even if it’s a long
> journey. The positivity and energy was wonderful to experience and it comes
> on top of a wonderfully different culture.
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
>
> Steve
>
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Best,
-Enock
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