Hi! The SOTM Baltics conference will be held in 3-4 August (Saturday-Sunday) 2013 in Tartu, Estonia.
The conference page in the OSM-wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SOTM_Baltics_2013 Registration to the SOTM Baltics will be announced as soon as possible. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Vladimir Elistratov < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > We've been discussing the idea of a regional mini-conference to be > attended by mappers from Baltic states. > OSM community in our countries seems to be a closed and isolated circle > with a very few new members each year. So we suggest to break the isolation > through an international OSM meet-up (or mini-conference) in Tartu, > Estonia. We coined the event "SOTM Baltics". > > Originally the event was targeted for mappers from Estonia, Russia, Latvia > and Finland. Why wasn't Lithuania in the list? I thought it wasn't > convinient to come from Vilnius to Tartu with public transportation. Please > prove me wrong! I hope it's not a problem for you at all! :-) > > Event format: very unformal (it's more like UNconference than an academic > conference): normal talks, lighting talks, "podium discussions", social > event in a pub in the evening. > > Why Tartu? We have mappers from Tartu who volonteered to find a room for > the SOTM Baltics. Also, Tartu can be conveniently accessed from the largest > cities in the Baltic countries: Tallinn, Helsinki, Sankt Petersburg, > Moscow, Riga > > Event fee: no or 10 Euro, to be decided. > > SOTM Baltics dates: a weekend in July. The exact dates are to be decided > via polling (see below). > > If you decide to go to Tartu with public trasportation, you will have to > change the bus in Riga. Tickets for the bus can be bought at > http://www.luxexpress.eu/lt > > If you'd like to attend the event, please take part in the poll to decide > on the conference dates: http://doodle.com/anddmr2kpxwnmv77 > > The discussion takes place in the talk-ee list: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ee/2013-April/001434.html > If you'd like to take part in the discussion, subscribe here: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ee >
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