[Talk-in] Fwd: OpenStreetMap events in 2015

[Alex Barth]

I am part of the organizing committee of State of the Map US this year.
There is a great scholarship program to offset travel cost and the call for
proposals is open. Check out the web site:

http://stateofthemap.us/about/

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Yogesh योगि <
yogesh at karnatakaeducation.org.in> wrote:

>
> No SoTM from OSMF this year.. But there'd be SoTM-US and SoTM-Scotland in
> June and October respectively..
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------  Subject: OpenStreetMap events in 2015  Date:
> Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:17:42 +0000  From: OpenStreetMap
>
> 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.
> [image: 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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