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

Jo winfixit at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 14:05:48 UTC 2020


The reason I'm asking is that I couldn't request a scholarship this year
and SA is too far to travel to at my own expense. Thus, I didn't propose a
talk. If the conference becomes virtual that changes completely.

If things change, I'll most likely (proof)-read it in WeeklyOSM.

Cheers,

Jo

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:45 PM Christine Karch <christine at hermione.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the deadline ended a month ago. At the moment it is not planned to call
> for additional submissions. We will ask the speakers of "accepted talks"
> first, and then see what the feedback is. If we have too much
> cancellations, we would make an additional call. But this is not planned
> at the moment, just a thought.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christine
>
> Am 26.03.20 um 14:41 schrieb 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
> > <mailto: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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> >
>
>
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