The reason I'm asking is that I couldn't request a scholarship this year and SA is too far to travel to at my own expense. Thus, I didn't propose a talk. If the conference becomes virtual that changes completely.
If things change, I'll most likely (proof)-read it in WeeklyOSM. Cheers, Jo On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:45 PM Christine Karch <christ...@hermione.de> wrote: > Hi, > > the deadline ended a month ago. At the moment it is not planned to call > for additional submissions. We will ask the speakers of "accepted talks" > first, and then see what the feedback is. If we have too much > cancellations, we would make an additional call. But this is not planned > at the moment, just a thought. > > Cheers, > > Christine > > Am 26.03.20 um 14:41 schrieb Jo: > > Hi Christine, > > > > That's great news, better than to have to cancel it completely anyway. > > > > If the conference is virtual, I wouldn't mind submitting a talk for it. > > Is this still possible? > > > > Polyglot > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:50 PM Christine Karch <christ...@hermione.de > > <mailto:christ...@hermione.de>> wrote: > > > > 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 <mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > >
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