Welcome everyone! So this is a less formal, but still official channel for everything related to the State of the Map 2022. There is still the group, @sotm2018, where you can (and should!) post photos and discuss the weather.
Here I'll be doing the same thing I've been doing since 2016 on the Russian channel @foss4g_ru: having fun at the conference and around it, posting photos and sharing insights from talks and chats. It was safer in Russian, since I could moan at reading slides verbatim or using tiny grey-on-white letters on slides without being heard by speakers. Hope you've all increased your font size to the max :)
My plane is tomorrow morning. Until then, I've nothing to share besides my super-engaging telegram bot: @sotm_intro_bot. Please please connect to it, type in your full name and record a 10-second video for it. You've got infinite number of tries and you can delete yourself from it. When we've got at least 50 or 100 people there, we could get to know each other before even seeing us in person! Imagine how wonderful it would be to come to the campus and realize you've seen half of those people.
Have fun (this is an order), and see you tomorrow evening at the OFF BAR!
Here I'll be doing the same thing I've been doing since 2016 on the Russian channel @foss4g_ru: having fun at the conference and around it, posting photos and sharing insights from talks and chats. It was safer in Russian, since I could moan at reading slides verbatim or using tiny grey-on-white letters on slides without being heard by speakers. Hope you've all increased your font size to the max :)
My plane is tomorrow morning. Until then, I've nothing to share besides my super-engaging telegram bot: @sotm_intro_bot. Please please connect to it, type in your full name and record a 10-second video for it. You've got infinite number of tries and you can delete yourself from it. When we've got at least 50 or 100 people there, we could get to know each other before even seeing us in person! Imagine how wonderful it would be to come to the campus and realize you've seen half of those people.
Have fun (this is an order), and see you tomorrow evening at the OFF BAR!
It's not immediately obvious that people at the State of the Map do not represent our community. I mean, yeah, it feels that way, crème de la crème and all; you have been listening to them since 2004 and they have shaped the project. They stopped being representative around 2008.
We, the attendees, all speak English, we could afford travelling to Italy, both in money and in time. Are the most active mappers in your country even speaking English? Are they responding? Playing well with others? Hey, are you from Europe?
The exact reason we have such a great time at SotMs and make / see a lot of friends is that we are very similar. Otherwise you won't be there. And OSM is diverse, whether you want it or not, so we get only a small slice of our vast community. You'll never see active contributors from Russia or Australia, for example, because SotM is not about diversity. Otherwise it would be online or distributed. And many good and important people just don't want to be seen.
Still, this thing that makes it imperfect also makes it manageable and fun. I know for sure I'll see many people I've been missing for the past three years, and many new ones. I know I'll get many new ideas and inspiration for future projects. And I'll have a great time — because I will be there.
We, the attendees, all speak English, we could afford travelling to Italy, both in money and in time. Are the most active mappers in your country even speaking English? Are they responding? Playing well with others? Hey, are you from Europe?
The exact reason we have such a great time at SotMs and make / see a lot of friends is that we are very similar. Otherwise you won't be there. And OSM is diverse, whether you want it or not, so we get only a small slice of our vast community. You'll never see active contributors from Russia or Australia, for example, because SotM is not about diversity. Otherwise it would be online or distributed. And many good and important people just don't want to be seen.
Still, this thing that makes it imperfect also makes it manageable and fun. I know for sure I'll see many people I've been missing for the past three years, and many new ones. I know I'll get many new ideas and inspiration for future projects. And I'll have a great time — because I will be there.
State of the Map 2022 Live pinned «Welcome everyone! So this is a less formal, but still official channel for everything related to the State of the Map 2022. There is still the group, @sotm2018, where you can (and should!) post photos and discuss the weather. Here I'll be doing the same thing…»
Tomorrow we'll have ~20 talks in four tracks. FOSDEM taught me to prepare digitally. Meaning, I need an app:
🤖 Giggity app for Android — choose "SotM 2022" on startup.
🍏 iCalendar file for iOS, also updated automatically.
Take a few minutes today to scroll through the list and mark the talks you're interested in hearing. Your phone would also show what happens at every moment, so you won't have to deal with paper schedules. Basically those are maps for the State of the Map!
And I should remind you of the chat group @sotm2018: announcements from the organizing team go there first, and here a bit later.
🤖 Giggity app for Android — choose "SotM 2022" on startup.
🍏 iCalendar file for iOS, also updated automatically.
Take a few minutes today to scroll through the list and mark the talks you're interested in hearing. Your phone would also show what happens at every moment, so you won't have to deal with paper schedules. Basically those are maps for the State of the Map!
And I should remind you of the chat group @sotm2018: announcements from the organizing team go there first, and here a bit later.
Italian airlines are amazing: oh the plane's late, oh we lost the bus, oh let's wait for our luggage, oh just a second we lost the bus again. Good thing I'm not in a hurry and can enjoy every hiccup :)
Met my first sotm-er on the plane: Olaf, works at Bosch on bicycle routing for e-bikes. Showed me a few routes, and they do not follow motorways, hurray. It shows when a cyclist is making things for cyclist. I hope he'll connect to Richard tomorrow. He looks forward to Jochen's talk though, which sadly won't help him with his tagging model issues.
He was studying our forums when I spotted him, and our forums are indeed a mess. He's been working on OSM data for couple years now, and just today found the link - which told him to follow another link (forums are migrating... Maybe?) Italians would be proud with our way of doing things.
Met my first sotm-er on the plane: Olaf, works at Bosch on bicycle routing for e-bikes. Showed me a few routes, and they do not follow motorways, hurray. It shows when a cyclist is making things for cyclist. I hope he'll connect to Richard tomorrow. He looks forward to Jochen's talk though, which sadly won't help him with his tagging model issues.
He was studying our forums when I spotted him, and our forums are indeed a mess. He's been working on OSM data for couple years now, and just today found the link - which told him to follow another link (forums are migrating... Maybe?) Italians would be proud with our way of doing things.
First thing that you see, coming from a country with a single mountain 300 m high, is a skyline. A tram gets you to the city center - just like in Tallinn. Architecture resembles Greece, but with more yellow. On sidewalks and parks there are signs of a recent rainstorm. Right below me is a posh pizza restaurant that works at night, and across the street - more things reminding of Athens, none mapped.