[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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > talk mailing list
> > talk at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>
> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
> >
>
>
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