[Talk-in] Fwd: OpenStreetMap events in 2015

[Yogesh योगि]

No SoTM from OSMF this year.. But there'd be SoTM-US and SoTM-Scotland
in June and October respectively..

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Subject: 	OpenStreetMap events in 2015
Date: 	Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:17:42 +0000
From: 	OpenStreetMap


OpenStreetMap events in 2015

The OpenStreetMap Foundation has been organising the annual State of the
Map (SotM) conference since 2007. These events have proved popular with
our community and beyond, and have grown from a few dozen attendees to a
high of 300 attendees at SotM 2013. This year we had two good bids to
host SotM 2015, but issues beyond our control caused concerns about
whether we could make this into a success. The SotM working group, with
the support of the OSMF board, has therefore agreed that there will be
no OSM Foundation organised conference this year.

As the OpenStreetMap community has grown over the last 10 years, so has
the conference scene. Even without OSMF organising a conference this
year, there will still be a number of OSM-centered conferences,
including SotM US <http://stateofthemap.us/> at the UN’s New York
headquarters in June, and SotM-Scotland
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2015> in
October. There are also many webinars, mapping parties, hack events and
socials planned <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events> for
2015.

UN General Assembly hall <https://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/434709325>

SotM-US will be held at the UN headquarters in New York, 6-8 June 2015
(image CC-BY 2.0 Dan McKay)
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/434709325/in/photostream/>

The StateoftheMap Organizing Committee
<http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/StateoftheMap_Organizing_Committee>
has taken on a number of new members to support our efforts in 2015,
2016 and beyond. We are currently drafting a proposal on the future of
SotM in which we are looking at the role of SotM within the project and
how the OSMF SotM relates to the various regional events. We already
have some views but we encourage you to share yours in the comments below.

Preparations for State of the Map 2016 will be starting soon and we
encourage local groups who may be interested in hosting SotM in their
home country to contact us early.

/Blog post by the StateoftheMap Organizing Committee/



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