Hi all, SotM 2020 will be a virtual conference!
Due to the high infection risk of SARS-COV-2 virus and all its consequences like travel restrictions, cancellation of physical meetings, "social distancing", and more, a physical SotM is not possible this year. The local team - who have done great work preparing this conference so far - have suggested to change the physical conference to a virtual one. This wasn't just an idle talk: they have already started a cool open source software project - https://gitlab.com/billowconf/billowconf for managing this! So the SotM working group adopted this plan, and agreed to have a virtual SotM conference this year instead of a physical one. We know about your disappointment not meeting each other physically this year (we are disappointed too), but after a few months of lockdown and "social distancing" we are sure we will all be excited to be reading and seeing each other in chats and videos. We will share more of the technical plans as the date comes closer. The date of the conference will stay the same, but shortened to two days: 4-5 July 2020. We planned an extended Q&A session after each talk and plenty of free spaces for discussions. So that the OpenStreetMap community can have a great week-end together. Christine on behalf of State of the Map Working Group _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk