We're just over a week away from SOTM US and there's already talk about BoF sessions, so I wanted to bring this up to the larger audience.
A BoF session, if you're not familiar, is a Birds of a Feather session, and it's a gathering of people in the same position, or at least who have the same interest on a topic. These folks gather in a room and what happens beyond that is up to the BoF organizer. Sometimes they have a presentation followed by discussion, sometimes it's a structured discussion (with an agenda), and sometimes it's an open discussion. I think they can be really valuable in bringing people together who might not otherwise even know that there are others with the same questions/problems/frustrations that they do. I'm hoping to have two BoF sessions at SOTM US: One on imports and bots[1] and the other on general questions about the future of OSM US infrastructure[2]. I bring this up because I'd like attendees to think about topics they're interested in, and maybe running your own BoF at the conference. - Serge [1] This is a contentious topic in the US community and so I expect this to be a lot of fun... Trying to bring together those people who want to get data in OSM as quickly as possible with those who've seen the damage of bad imports and bots. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
