[Strategic] SOTM-EU on Frontpage?

[Steve Coast]

Sorry but no.

SOTM is organized and funded by the OSMF. SOTMEU is not. The OSMF have a 
financial and moral responsibility to make SOTM a success. Unfortunately 
the prevailing attitude is that people should go to SOTMEU or SOTM not 
both, so any advertising of SOTMEU is sadly taking away from SOTM. And, 
frankly, the extremely negative view of attending SOTM I've heard 
multiple times from people in the EU does not help your case.

As the person who named the conference and started it (with help!) I 
would very much like SOTMEU to succeed, of course! But, not at the 
expense of the conference that the board is responsible for. We have to 
make SOTM a success. It's wonderful that SOTMEU is doing well, I'm 
looking forward to attending and speaking, but we have a direct 
responsibility for SOTM.

Steve

On 6/3/2011 10:45 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote:
>
> +1
>
> Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Milo van der Linden
>
> verzonden vanaf een smartphone met onhandig toetsenbord. Typefouten? 
> Vergeef mij!
>
> Op 3 jun. 2011 19:08 schreef "Michael Kugelmann" <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de 
> <mailto:MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de>> het volgende:
> > Am 27.05.2011 06:12, schrieb Kai Krueger:
> >> as part of the osm.org <http://osm.org> frontpage reorganisation 
> discussions,
> >
> > BTW:
> > I'm not 100% shure whether this is the best ML for this but this thread
> > seems to be a good point to link to...
> >
> > On the frontpage there is an "advertisement" for the SOTM in Denver in
> > September. This is basically very OK.
> > Although the next big OSM conference is the SOTM-EU at Vienna.
> > Additionally SOTM-EU takes place before the SOTM in Denver. And I think
> > for the biggest part of the European OSM contributors (which I guess 
> are
> > biggest part of OSM contributors) the SOTM-EU is much more important
> > than the SOTM in Denver due to the long distance.
> > For my point of view it would be nice to have an advertisement for the
> > SOTM-EU also being present on the front page.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Michael.
> >
> >
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