Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-03 Thread Heather Leson
Hi Some big dream community stuff could be great at SOTM and for OSM. Pardon me if this is done already. Ive attended some workshops & birds of a feather events on this at SOTM -US on this topic plus been reading for a few years and attending local events when I can) Some ideas Stages BEFORE,

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-03 Thread joost schouppe
2015-12-02 23:52 GMT+01:00 Simone Cortesi : > > is this actually data supported? did we notice a measurable increase > in user contributions from Argentina, or a better community > engagement? > There are probably others who can go into more detail, but the momentum of having

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-03 Thread Christine Karch
Hi all, OpenStreetMap has not only an immense worth in its data. It is also the international and worldwide community which is a real treasure. The working together and all other aspects, I don't need to tell you ... And as data are located in database and we nurse our database, we must take

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-03 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Thursday 03 December 2015, Christine Karch wrote: > > By the way this is what I work for at SOTM WG and also the reason I > joined it. And it was the spirit of SOTM-EU in Karlsruhe (thank you > Richard for your acclamation). Another thing that also worked fairly well in Karlsruhe and that the

[OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Steve Coast
I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. I’m curious what people here think of the idea? Best Steve ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Steve, Am 2015-12-02 um 22:23 schrieb Steve Coast: > I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap > conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. I have counted 20 talks by companies and universities out of 40 talks at all at SotM

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap > conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has > become. > > I’m curious what people here think of the idea? As someone

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/02/2015 10:23 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap > conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. There are many different ways in which one could focus on the community. In Germany, we've

[OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
Fantastic comments so far - it's super to hear people thinking about what is best as getting SotM and the OSM community right will benefit us all :-D >Michael wrote: >Maybe there are too much company employees member of the program committee? Great concern :-) Just to let you know, the 3 groups

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Dees wrote: > As someone currently planning a more community-focused SOTM US, I'd > be interested in hearing what sort of changes you would propose to > the existing SOTM structure. It's a great question to ask; and I realise this may sound a little contrarian, but I actually find myself

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Rob Nickerson
> Steve wrote: >I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. > >I’m curious what people here think of the idea? > Hi Steve, It's good to hear from you again and thank you for raising the

Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

2015-12-02 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Michael Reichert wrote: > A conference can become a real community conference if it is located at > the center of the community, i.e. in Europe. Having a conference at a > remote location, i.e. Buenos Aires, might be good to boost the local >