On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > === Welcome to SotM 2013 === > It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to State of the Map 2013. > This year's annual conference for all OpenStreetMap contributors and users > will be held in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on the weekend of 6th-8th > September. The organising team is working to ensure that this is the best > SotM conference to date, with one of our key aims being to promote early > involvement right across the OpenStreetMap community. It is with that in > mind that I have the delight in revealing this years theme and introducing > the first area in which you can get involved! > > This year's theme is "Change". > > It seems incredible that is was 6 years ago that we held the first SotM > conference. The time has gone so quickly and I believe that this is due to > the rapid speed in which OpenStreetMap has grown and developed. In 2007 at > the first conference, we had 10,000 registered OSM members, now there are > over 1.05 million of us. Between us we have increased the number of map > nodes from 7million in 2007 to a staggering 1.8 billion. Thank you! > > So what does "Change" look like as a theme? We will use the conference to > explore how OSM has changed, both in the community and in the type of data > we are creating (and now maintaining). You will see how the tools have > changed and get insights into future developments. We will also look at how > OpenStreetMap's huge success is changing the industry (not just the map > industry, but also the impact on humanitarian organisations, charities, > journalism, large and small companies, freelance workers and even > government). Finally we will be peering into our crystal ball that is OSM > 2014 and beyond. > > > === Get Involved === > Jump in to SotM 2013 by helping us spread the message. We would like to > translate our theme of "Change" into as many languages as possible. Please > send your translations of the word "Change" to me (or this list) and I will > collate them and share the results on stateofthemap.org > > A couple of rules: > > 1. We are looking for translations of "Change" the noun (as in "we saw *a > change* in the number of OpenStreetMap contributors") rather than the verb > (as in "*to change* an OSM tag") - Sorry if that makes no sense with both > words being the same in English, hopefully all will become clearer as > people start to post translations. > 2. No machine translation / no google translate. > > That's it! > > Welcome to State of the Map 2013, > > RobJN (on behalf of the organising team) > stateofthemap.org > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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