Thanks Nick, for the clarification - it's certainly looking like it's going to be a cracking conference!
chippy 2009/3/16 Nick Black <nickbla...@gmail.com>: > Hi Chippy, > > The idea of the business day is to promote OSM and opengeodata to potential > users. The business day is not so much about letting OSM solution providers > promote their products. We want to focus on the bigger issues - why OSM is > important to consumers of geodata, why crowd sourcing is the way forward, > reliability of OSM etc. We are planning a "10 of the best" session - a one > hour slot that would let startups and small businesses pitch their solution > to the audience. > > The SOTM organizing committee are currently finalizing the themes and > agenda, but this is what we are looking like at the moment: > > Suggested Themes: > > Crucially Independent - Why an independent third data source is vital for > consumers of geodata > The Crowd Sourced Advantage - What is crowd sourcing and how does it relate > to map data? > Safe and Secure - Delivering reliable, high quality products and services > with OSM data > Serving the Public - Using OSM data to provide better services to citizens > in Local and National Government > > Criteria for Choosing Speakers > > World leader in a field that is directly relevant to a theme > Senior level in a company that is contributing to the themes of the day > > Target Audience > > Execs and senior management from mobile handset manufacturers, network > operators, transport consultancies, national and local government, web > portals, navigation providers and other ISVs using mapping data > Professional cartographers, GIS analysts and statisticians > Owners of start-ups and small businesses who use or are considering using > mapping data > OSMers (of course ;-) ) > > Concept program > > Show the problem - why do you need crowd sourced data? > Introduce the solution - OSM - crowdsourced, reliable, up to date > Give examples - people using OSM data > Discussion panel - panel made up of leading speakers for the day > > The quick answer is that you should first submit to the weekend conference, > via the online form. When the Biz Day is finalised (in the next few days) > you can always re-submit or submit a second paper. > > Cheers, > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Tim Waters (chippy) <chippy2...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 2009/3/16 Nick Black <nickbla...@gmail.com>: >> > That's right - there's only 117 days until we start SOTMizing in >> > Amsterdam. >> > >> > Details of the Call for Papers are here: >> > >> > http://www.stateofthemap.org/2009/03/16/call-for-papers-for-the-stateofthemap-2009-is-now-open/ >> > >> > You can buy an early bird ticket for the recession beating price of € 85 >> > here until the 29th March: http://www.stateofthemap.org/register-now/ >> >> Could you clarify the call for papers and the Business Day - there >> doesn't seem to be a way to just submit a paper to one or the other, >> or to give a preference. >> >> From what I gather, the differences are not just Serious Business on >> one day vs Fun Geeky Community stuff - there's cross over, right? >> Might we have to submit two talks, one about how you can make serious >> money using X for Friday, and one about the ins and outs of how X was >> made for the weekend? >> >> Could we see certain talks repeated, say, from a celebrity speaker, >> generous sponsor, etc? >> >> Tim > > > > -- > -- > Nick Black > twitter.com/nick_b > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk