[OSM-talk] State of the Map US 2015 in New York, NY, June 6-8

[Manfred A. Reiter]

Hi Pieren, Randy, all,

2014-11-12 11:14 GMT+01:00 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Randy Meech <randy.meech at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It's that the US org has a demonstrated track
> > record of running large conferences very well, and it seemed like a
> better
> > partner for this.
>
> I'm sure other countries can organize large conferences as well. The
> location inside the country is more important than the country itself
> (all large conferences have the same needs).
>

+1

> For context, during this submission process the Buenos
> > Aires event didn't post a schedule until the last minute, had sponsorship
> > issues with logos not correct, not up on time, etc.
>
> For such issues, I would expect some support from the foundation. To
> my mind, since OSM is a worlwide project, the SOTM's should play like
> all international events and should happen around the world, not
> excluding any one. And like football world cup or olympic games, it
> should target a kind of "continents rotation policy" and not
> exclusively "Europe or US" (idealy).
>

+1


>
> > This conference will be
> > very visible and we can't have stuff like that happening, so we opted for
> > the US group.
>
> Visible... in US. This is always the same. The conference is mostly
> visible in the country where it is organized. Your request and
> arguments sound a bit too much US centric and will probably hurt a
> large part of the community.


Yes, IMHO we could have the chance for a great visibilty, but I can not see
the NY bid here anymore ...

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2015/Call_for_venues/Toronto,_Canada

it was there, but withdrawn, so it is pointless to discuss about SoTM 2105
in NY.
-- 
## Manfred
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