[Party] State of the map

Nick Black nickblack1 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 09:59:36 GMT 2007


Juding by:

http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers

and the non-wiki

http://cfp.wikimania.wikimedia.org/

There is a set of themes and then papers are submitted to an email
address and the decision is made by a committee.



On 1/22/07, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just curious .. how are submissions managed and approved for Wikimania?
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com>
> To: Party at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:23:58 PM
> Subject: [Party] State of the map
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been thinking about a few things for the conference.
>
> First, we'll need some way to decide which papers go into which track,
> and perhaps which papers we dont accept at all - it could be that we
> have 100s of submissions.  The community should certainly decide, and
> I would propose that this is done through IRC meetings - once we have
> abstracts we should meet and decide which ones go where etc.  Someone
> is going to have be responsible for collecting abstracts - I'll
> volunteer for this task. (Unless we just get people to post them to
> the wiki?)
>
> Secondly, do we think that the wiki will suffice as the main website
> for the conference or do we need a static site that allows people to
> sign up, pay, register their T-shirt size, dietery requiremens, and
> submit abstracts from.  Are there any volunteers for making the site?
>
> Third - email addresses.  I guess people are going to take
> responsibility for different parts of the conference.  I think it
> could be time for a press at openstreetmap.org,
> abstracts at openstreetmap.org etc email adresses.  It makes us look a
> lot more professional.
>
> I am basing a lot of this on my experience with the FOSS4G conference
> [1], which was quite honestly, the pinnacle of organisation.  Take a
> look at their site, I think a lot of the functionality is still there.
>
> Finally, my brother would like to film the conference for us.  He
> studies film and media production, and will hopefully be able to
> borrow a badass camera from his college.  He'll then be able to edit
> it all down and produce DVDs that we can sell.  I think he's going to
> email this list this evening.
>
> What would also be cool would be to have a live feed of procedings -
> audio and visual so that people can watch in real time, from where
> ever they are in the world.  This should all be within our abilities,
> but would require another camera and Internet access.
>
> [1] http://www.foss4g2006.org/
>
>
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