Hi! We've been discussing the idea of a regional mini-conference to be attended by mappers from Estonia, Russia, Latvia and Finland. 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".
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) How to get to Tartu from Riga with public transportation. There are 4 daily buses between Riga and Tartu that depart Riga at 8:40, 18:45, 22:45, 23:55. The journey takes around 4 hours. Tickets can be bought at http://www.luxexpress.eu/lv 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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