[Talk-ee] SOTM Baltic

[Margus Värton]

Hi,

sounds like a very good idea. From Estonia Jaak has been on several 
SOTM-s, I have been visiting SOTM in Amsterdam and Girona, Andres Kaaber 
was in Girona I suppose. I would not go into details but we were using 
Russian there alot :)

  - M -


11.04.2013 12:47, Vladimir Elistratov kirjutas:
> Hi!
>
> A few additions to the mail of Ilia Zverev aka Zverik
>
> In 2011 quite a few participants of the russian OSM forum took part in 
> the SOTM-EU conference in Vienna. It was an excellent opportunity for 
> us to meet both OSM "celebrities" and ordinary OSM members.
>
> Last year SOTM was in Japan, this yeart it will be in England with 
> complicated visa procedure for us. OSM community both in Russia and 
> Estonia seems to be a closed and isolated circle with a very few new 
> members each year. So we suggest to break the isolation through an 
> internatinal OSM meet-up (or mini-conference) in Estonia.
> Let's call it for now SOTM Baltic. Zverik mentioned that we had held a 
> one day local mini-conference in Moscow a year ago. Around 20 people 
> attended that event. It didn't require many organisational efforts. 
> The main requirement was to find a room for the event. I suppose the 
> SOTM Baltic would be an event of the same scale.
>
> I expect that OSM members from Tartu, Tallinn, Sankt Petersburg, 
> Moscow, Riga and Helsinki might come to the SOTM Baltic.
>
> Looking forward to your feedback.
>
> Vladimir Elistratov aka vvoovv
>
>
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