[Strategic] SOTM-EU on Frontpage?

[Michael Kugelmann]

Steve Coast: wrote at 03.06.2011 19:51,

> 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.
It's simply a mater of effort:
1) For me as a private person who doesn't get it's flights around the 
world sponsered by a company (like some other people) the costs of a 
trip to the US just for a three day's conference is too high.
2) This is the same regarding the duration of the trip: it's simply too 
far away => flight takes too long athough I basically like flying. 
(There is the jet lag also.)
3) And it would be the same for a conference in Australia or South 
Africa or Japan or  [take any long distance flight destignation]...

> 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.
But for whom is OSM.org for? Is it a page dedicated (only) for the OSMF 
or for the community? Isn't the biggest part of the community in Europe? 
So why is the OSMF not supporting the OSM community around the word? Is 
only that what was started by the board as official OSM event?

You started OSM as a community project, the OSMF was then founded to 
support the project and therefor community. According to my 
understanding the SOTM-EU is a conference organized by the community for 
the community. So why is this not supported? I'm a little dissapointed 
to read your statement...   :-(


Best regards,
Michael.