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

[Warin]

On 27/3/20 1:16 am, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> On Thursday 26 March 2020, Christine Karch wrote:
>> 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.
> As a bit of broader background:  The participants of physical presence
> conferences like SotM - and thereby implicitly also those holding the
> talks at such conferences - largely belong to one of the following
> groups:
>
> * wealthy individuals from around the world who can afford the visit to
> the conference from their own pockets.
> * employees of companies who pay for them to visit the conference.
> * members of the local community from where the conference takes place.
> * in small numbers as scholars: Other individuals deemed worthy to be
> supported in visiting the conference by people with money and who are
> willing to ask for such support and subject themselves to scrutiny for
> this.
>
> One of the biggest benefits for having a virual event instead of a
> physical presence event would be that presenting something there would
> not be limited to the above mentioned groups but would be possible for
> a much larger range of people with much lower barriers of entry.
>
> That does not mean the idea presented by Christine as a substitute for
> the physical presence conference cancelled in the current situation is
> bad.  But i would call it more a virtualized conference.  It does not
> make full use of the potential the idea of a completely virtual event
> would have.
>
> I would very much like to see more bold endeavours to organize virtual
> conferences and other virtual social events in the OSM community that
> test and make use of all the potential this has.


+1. Certain environmental benefits too.

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