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State Of The Map 2013 will be held in Birmingham! Congratulations to the organisers of this winning Birmingham bid.
If you would like to get involved please drop by the "talk-gb-westmidlands" Mailing List or pop in to one of the Mappa Mercia (Midlands User Group) meetups which are held first Thursday of every month (details on mappamercia wiki page).
SOTM 2013 Birmingham UK Bid Conference Summary
- Bid submitted by mappamercia ( UK West Midlands OSM mappers): main contact Brian Prangle brian at mappa-mercia.org
- Venue at Aston University in the heart of the city
- On-site student-standard or hotel-standard accommodation.
- Confirmed Venue which is held for 6th-8th September 2013
- Traditional conference agenda and structure: multi-stream with keynotes, presentations, workshops, panel sessions, lightning talks
- Community building activities with two streams: engaging those not able to attend with online and interactive activities; together with a range of conference fringe events.
- Easy transport access
- High “interestingness” as a destination
- Affordable Delegate Cost –suggested EUR80 max (USD106)
- Strong organising team
FULL TEXT OF BID CAN BE FOUND HERE Media:SOTM_2013_bid_new_draft_v10.pdf
Details of Organising Committee
Name | OSM username | Conference Role | Experience |
---|---|---|---|
Brian Prangle | brianboru | Project Lead | OSM mapper for 5 years. ex-CTO of a Systems Integrator with many years commercial IT project experience |
Andy Robinson | blackadder | TBA | Ex-OSMF Secretary & Treasurer. Previous SOTM delivery experience. |
Andrew McKenzie | AV: streaming video and radio | Cabinet Office Open Data User Group member. Video and audio interviews with people at open data hack days and Open Knowledge Foundation events. Assistance at OpenTech events in previous years | |
Andy Mabbett | pigsonthewing | TBA | Active local mapper; Wikipedia ambassador |
Mike Duffy | miked29 | TBA | Active local mapper |
Matt Williams | milliams | TBA | Active local mapper and developer |
Jonathan Harley | spiffy | Conference Web site & social media | Active local mapper; geo-software entrepreneur www.spiffymap.com |
Stuart Lester | stu_lester | Sponsorship programme | Active local mapper; local authority GIS manager; opensource and open data advocate; geo-networker |
Rob Nickerson | RobJN | TBA | Contributor to OSM for nearly 2 years. Also worked on improving wiki documentation to help newcomers involved in "Open Data" groups that have successfully obtained public sector data as an additional source of information for mappers. |
Shaun McDonald | smsm1 | TBA | ITOworld developer. Maintains http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/ and http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/. |
Nick Whitelegg | nickw | TBA | Creator of Freemap |
Florian Lainez | overflorian | TBA | Member of OSM-France, involved in all the topics related to disabilities; mapping parties organizer; now resident in West Midlands. |