[OSM-talk] Portugal proposal for the SOTM 2012

[Jorge Gustavo]

Hi Steve,

i) The exact location is a good question :-)

We have two options: one major city like Lisbon or Oporto, nice to 
visit, or a smaller city where people will stay together, with less 
distractions.

Since SOTM is a community event, we are more interested to go to a 
smaller city, where we can find facilities for much less money and even 
for free. Everybody can walk to the conference site, and people will 
mostly eat and stay all together.

If the event goes beyond the 300 participants, it's no so easy to stay 
in a smaller city (accommodation, large auditorium, etc), but we are 
using 300 as the expected number of participants.

But I can answer with a question: what people prefer? Large city, maybe 
able to capture more participants also interested in visiting the city, 
or a smaller city like Aveiro or Guimaraẽs?

ii) Dates. You didn't ask, but we should organize the SOTM around July. 
We need the exact dates, to allocate the space soon as possible. We suggest:
- OSM design and code sprint: July, 8 - 12 (< 20 part.)
- OSM conference: July, 13 - 14 (+- 300 part.)
- OSMF general assembly (for OSMF members): July, 15 (morning) (< 50 part.)
- OSM board meeting: July 12 or 16. (< 10 part.)

a) Should we keep our suggesting of doing the conference on Friday and 
Saturday? (do minimize impact on our daily jobs, or people prefer to 
have the weekend to do other things?)
b) Should we use 3 days for the conference? 2+1/2 conference + 1/2 assembly?

We didn't closed these issues to make SOTM 2012 more closed to what 
people want. So, please help us to shape our proposal to SOTM 2012.

Regards,

Jorge

Em 13-11-2011 22:30, Steve Doerr escreveu:
> I was going to say 'where?', but I see from your wiki
> (http://wiki.osgeopt.pt/index.php/Vamos_mapear_Portugal#SOTM_2012) that
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-8.66380001068&minlat=40.631040802&maxlon=-8.64379905701&maxlat=40.6510446167
> and
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-8.30372024536&minlat=41.4345877075&maxlon=-8.28371929169&maxlat=41.4545915222
> are being floated as locations.
>
>
> On 13/11/2011 18:16, Jorge Gustavo wrote:
>> Since the SOTM 2012 call for venues is now open[1], we are willing to
>> organize it in Portugal.
>
>
>
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