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 enjoying SOTM-US more than SOTM. SOTM-US is full of people shipping things, and "shipping things" is the OSM spirit. Whether they're corporate or not doesn't really bother me. SOTM tends to have a greater proportion of academia and unviable hobbyist projects, which arouses the 2007 militant OSMer in me: "yes, this is all very clever, but what are you actually _doing_ with it?". That isn't to denigrate the organisational effort of the SOTM crew, who conjure miracles out of nothing; nor to say SOTM-US is perfect. (_Way_ too much Node.JS at SOTM-US. ;) ) And SOTM-EU in Karlsruhe was neither SOTM-US nor SOTM, but was perhaps the finest OSM conference I've attended. But I would really caution against contrasting "corporate" and "community". cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Community-Conference-tp5861569p5861575.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
