Hello everyone. I've read previous messages of this thread and as coordinator of the local organizing committee i can understand your concern about SotM status.
This is the first event that we organize as a community in Argentina, because previous meetings have taken place in more informal context. In South America we don't have the same number of communities and members that exist today in Europe or in the United States, we still much to do, learn and grow and we're convinced that the realization of an event like State of the Map will be one of the first steps to build a community through the common work. Because the above, is reasonable to expect that the effort is greater because it not only involves the organization of a conference, but also require to build a working group on the basis of a community that never worked for an aim like that until today. We've been talking with Henk about doing the conference here since last year, even before Birmingham was announced as host, but we understood that it was necessary to prepare well for this purpose, with more time than it would take elsewhere. IIn fact, most of those that are members of the local organizing committee joined when Buenos Aires was announced as the next host. For our luck, Henk has fully cooperated with us from the begining so we are grateful. Currently our committee consists of 18 people, and we are doing our best to make a conference that include all the necessary with a minimal budget, because our aim is to contribute to the objectives of the Foundation even economically. We've not yet announced prices, location and other details because since last year Buenos Aires has many scheduled activities which makes it difficult to achieve the necessary with a minimum cost or even free. At the moment we have the logo, which has already been uploaded to the SotM's official twitter account and currently we're working on the website development. I know that some of you have organized previous SOTM so your experience may be very useful. We are open to all contributions, suggestions and inquiries you may have. Hoping to have cleared some of their concerns, I greet you. See you soon, Gonzalo G. Perez
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