On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Jorge Gustavo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Steve, > > i) The exact location is a good question :-) > > We have two options: one major city like Lisbon or Oporto, nice to visit, > or a smaller city where people will stay together, with less distractions. > I would love to come this year, and any of these options would be fantastic. > > Since SOTM is a community event, we are more interested to go to a smaller > city, where we can find facilities for much less money and even for free. > Everybody can walk to the conference site, and people will mostly eat and > stay all together. > > If the event goes beyond the 300 participants, it's no so easy to stay in > a smaller city (accommodation, large auditorium, etc), but we are using 300 > as the expected number of participants. > > But I can answer with a question: what people prefer? Large city, maybe > able to capture more participants also interested in visiting the city, or > a smaller city like Aveiro or Guimaraẽs? > > ii) Dates. You didn't ask, but we should organize the SOTM around July. We > need the exact dates, to allocate the space soon as possible. We suggest: > - OSM design and code sprint: July, 8 - 12 (< 20 part.) > - OSM conference: July, 13 - 14 (+- 300 part.) > - OSMF general assembly (for OSMF members): July, 15 (morning) (< 50 part.) > - OSM board meeting: July 12 or 16. (< 10 part.) > FYI - Wikimania 2012 is July 12-15. We had a good size mapping party and turnout of OSM mappers at Wikimania 2011, and certainly hope to repeat that this summer. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org If SOTM could be later in July, that would be super duper awesome for people who want to attend both. Cheers, Katie > > a) Should we keep our suggesting of doing the conference on Friday and > Saturday? (do minimize impact on our daily jobs, or people prefer to have > the weekend to do other things?) > b) Should we use 3 days for the conference? 2+1/2 conference + 1/2 > assembly? > > We didn't closed these issues to make SOTM 2012 more closed to what people > want. So, please help us to shape our proposal to SOTM 2012. > > Regards, > > Jorge > > Em 13-11-2011 22:30, Steve Doerr escreveu: > > I was going to say 'where?', but I see from your wiki >> (http://wiki.osgeopt.pt/index.**php/Vamos_mapear_Portugal#**SOTM_2012<http://wiki.osgeopt.pt/index.php/Vamos_mapear_Portugal#SOTM_2012>) >> that >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**minlon=-8.66380001068&minlat=** >> 40.631040802&maxlon=-8.**64379905701&maxlat=40.**6510446167<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-8.66380001068&minlat=40.631040802&maxlon=-8.64379905701&maxlat=40.6510446167> >> and >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**minlon=-8.30372024536&minlat=** >> 41.4345877075&maxlon=-8.**28371929169&maxlat=41.**4545915222<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-8.30372024536&minlat=41.4345877075&maxlon=-8.28371929169&maxlat=41.4545915222> >> are being floated as locations. >> >> >> On 13/11/2011 18:16, Jorge Gustavo wrote: >> >>> Since the SOTM 2012 call for venues is now open[1], we are willing to >>> organize it in Portugal. >>> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> > -- Katie Filbert President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org [email protected] @filbertkm / @wikimediadc
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