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 <christ...@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@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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