We’ve been discussing the idea of a regional mini-conference to be attended by mappers from Baltic countries, Russia, Finland and Sweden. OSM community in our countries seems to be a closed and isolated circle with a very few new members each year. So we suggest to break the isolation through an international OSM meet-up (or mini-conference) in Tartu, Estonia. We coined the event “SOTM Baltics”.
Early Bird Registration for the SOTM Baltics is open: http://sotm-baltics.org
Register before the 9th of June for just 10 Euro!
Event format: very unformal (it’s more like UNconference than an academic conference): normal talks, lighting talks, “podium discussions”, social event in a pub in the evening.
Why Tartu? We have mappers from Tartu who volonteered to find a room for the SOTM Baltics. Also, Tartu can be conveniently accessed from the largest cities in the Baltic countries: Tallinn, Helsinki, Sankt Petersburg, Moscow, Riga
How to get to Tartu from Helsinki with public transportation. Take a ferry to Tallinn (2 hours), then take a bus or a train to Tartu (2.5 hours).
The conference hall is normally used for PhD defence and University Senate meetings. The University of Tartu was found in 1632, its main building was built more than 200 years ago.
So far we’ve got a significant number of participants from Estonia and Russia. Mappers from Latvia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands and Afghanistan are also registered for the conference.
Just imagine what a problem to come to Estonia from Afghanistan! And it’s just a few hours travel time from Finland! So don’t hesitate to register until the 9th of June: http://sotm-baltics.org/register.html