[OSM-talk] SotM 2020 - Move to virtual conference

[Jo]

Hi Christine,

That's great news, better than to have to cancel it completely anyway.

If the conference is virtual, I wouldn't mind submitting a talk for it. Is
this still possible?

Polyglot

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:50 PM Christine Karch <christine at hermione.de>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> SotM 2020 will be a virtual conference!
>
> Due to the high infection risk of SARS-COV-2 virus and all its
> consequences like travel restrictions, cancellation of physical
> meetings, "social distancing", and more, a physical SotM is not possible
> this year.
>
> The local team - who have done great work preparing this conference so
> far - have suggested to change the physical conference to a virtual one.
> This wasn't just an idle talk:  they have already started a cool open
> source software project - https://gitlab.com/billowconf/billowconf for
> managing this!
>
> So the SotM working group adopted this plan, and agreed to have a
> virtual SotM conference this year instead of a physical one.
>
> We know about your disappointment not meeting each other physically this
> year (we are disappointed too), but after a few months of lockdown and
> "social distancing" we are sure we will all be excited to be reading and
> seeing each other in chats and videos. We will share more of the
> technical plans as the date comes closer.
>
> The date of the conference will stay the same, but shortened to two
> days: 4-5 July 2020. We planned an extended Q&A session after each talk
> and plenty of free spaces for discussions. So that the OpenStreetMap
> community can have a great week-end together.
>
>
> Christine
>
> on behalf of State of the Map Working Group
>
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