[OSM-talk] Portugal proposal for the SOTM 2012

[Katie Filbert]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Jorge Gustavo <jgr at osgeopt.pt> wrote:

> 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.
>

I would love to come this year, and any of these options would be fantastic.


>
> 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.)
>

FYI - Wikimania 2012 is July 12-15. We had a good size mapping party and
turnout of OSM mappers at Wikimania 2011, and certainly hope to repeat that
this summer.

http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org

If SOTM could be later in July, that would be super duper awesome for
people who want to attend both.

Cheers,
Katie


>
> 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<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<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<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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