At the moment I have no idea what we will offer "at the end" as we have neither experience nor technology. This will develop within the next weeks. I try to explain. The approach is small-medium-large. This means we try to establish a small but smoothly running virtual conference on our own platform. "Small" means at the moment two tracks at two days, "day" may be extended to evening to have more time zone coverage. At the moment I also would prefer that the speakers from the official tracks have pre-recorded talks so that we can be sure it runs.
To be more concrete: the decision at our last meeting was to run with a open source platform. If we would fall back to a proprietary platform in worst case (what means that ower own platform won't run) .. at the moment very unlikely. If it shows that the performance is good enough we could extend to more parellel tracks including lightning talks etc. I hope we can provide lightning talks too :) p.s. If you are a developer and interested in participating in this experience please tell (s...@openstreetmap.org). You find our software here: https://gitlab.com/billowconf/billowconf Kyle, the maintainer, is part of the local team Cape Town and was mainly responsible for the video/streaming part of the conference. A cool guy and a challenging project! For example help by a frontend developer would be more than welcome, he told me. Am 26.03.20 um 18:15 schrieb Tobias Knerr: > On 26.03.20 14:45, Christine Karch wrote: >> the deadline ended a month ago. At the moment it is not planned to call >> for additional submissions. > > SotM usually offers numerous slots for Lightning Talks. Will that be the > case with this virtual conference as well? Spontaneous LT submissions > might be an opportunity for people who originally didn't submit because > of the barrier of physical travel. > > Also, thanks to everyone in the SotM team for their work under these > unusual circumstances! > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
