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Map 2020/Call for venues">call for venues</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">22 Sep. </th> <td><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/Call_for_venues/CapeTown" title="State of the Map 2020/Call for venues/CapeTown">Cape Town</a> selected. </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">30 Oct. </th> <td>Logo presented. </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">12 Nov. </th> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org">Event website</a> launched. </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">7 Dec. </th> <td>Starting <a class="external text" href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/12/07/call-for-sotm-2020-presentations/">call for session proposals</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th><i>2020</i> </th> <td> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">18 Jan. </th> <td><a class="external text" href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2020/01/18/sotm2020-applications-for-scholarships-open/">Opened scholarship applications</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">15 Feb. </th> <td>Deadline for scholarship applications. </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">23 Feb. </th> <td>Deadline for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/">session</a> proposals. </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">26 Mar. </th> <td>Deadline of call for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org/cfp/academic/">academic</a> abstracts. </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">4 May </th> <td>Program announced </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;font-weight:normal">4–5 Jul. </th> <td><b>Main conference</b> days with online presentations and discussions. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Event_organisation"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Event organisation</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#News_about_SotM_at"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">News about SotM at</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Get_in_touch_via_Email"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Get in touch via Email</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Conference_Volunteers"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Conference Volunteers</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#We_go_virtual"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">We go virtual</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Lightning_Talks"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Lightning Talks</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Self-organized_sessions"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Self-organized sessions</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Help_for_speakers"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Help for speakers</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#SotM_T-Shirt:_Organization_of_shops"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">SotM T-Shirt: Organization of shops</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Booklet"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Booklet</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Interaction"><span class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span class="toctext">Interaction</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="#Social_Media"><span class="tocnumber">2.6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Social Media</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13"><a href="#IRC"><span class="tocnumber">2.6.2</span> <span class="toctext">IRC</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Feedback"><span class="tocnumber">2.7</span> <span class="toctext">Feedback</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Team_picture"><span class="tocnumber">2.8</span> <span class="toctext">Team picture</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Community_write-ups"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Community write-ups</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#EN"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">EN</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#ES"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">ES</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#RU"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">RU</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#Sponsorship"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Sponsorship</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#Cape_Town_-_our_host_city_in_2020"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Cape Town - our host city in 2020</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Event_organisation">Event organisation</span></h2> <p><b>State Of The Map 2020</b> was set to take place in <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>. Due to the 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 was not possible in 2020. Instead it was held as an online conference on <b>4-5 July 2020</b>. Read the <a class="external text" href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2020/03/27/sotm-2020-will-be-a-virtual-conference/">official announcement on the OSM blog</a> for further information. </p> <div style="background-color:rgb(255, 184, 28); color:black; padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0em; width:20em; text-align:center"><big>Conference website: <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org/"><span style="color:black">2020.stateofthemap.org</span></a></b></big></div> <p>The key dates/deadlines are shown on the right. </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="News_about_SotM_at">News about SotM at</span></h4> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org">SotM 2020 Website</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/">SotM posts on the OSM Blog</a></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap" class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/sotm"><img alt="Twitter user" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Logo_of_Twitter.svg/20px-Logo_of_Twitter.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Twitter user" width="20" height="16" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Logo_of_Twitter.svg/30px-Logo_of_Twitter.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Logo_of_Twitter.svg/40px-Logo_of_Twitter.svg.png 2x" />@sotm</a></span> Follow us on twitter</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://t.me/sotm2018">SotM 2020 on Telegram</a> - News and chitchat</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://media.ccc.de/c/sotm2020">Recordings of SotM 2020 Talks</a></li></ul> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Get_in_touch_via_Email">Get in touch via Email</span></h4> <p>Please don’t hesitate to get on board by contacting <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:sotm@openstreetmap.org">sotm@openstreetmap.org</a>! </p> <ul><li>Organization team <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:sotm@openstreetmap.org">sotm@openstreetmap.org</a></li> <li>Program committee <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:program-sotm@openstreetmap.org">program-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a></li> <li>Academic program committee <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org">academic-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a></li> <li>Scholarship committee <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:scholar-sotm@openstreetmap.org">scholar-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a></li> <li>Sponsors <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:sponsor-sotm@openstreetmap.org">sponsor-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a></li></ul> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Conference_Volunteers">Conference Volunteers</span></h4> <p>Thanks for all volunteers who helped running the conference smoothly! </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/volunteers" title="State of the Map 2020/volunteers">Volunteering at SotM 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/tasks" title="State of the Map 2020/tasks">tasks</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="We_go_virtual">We go virtual</span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Lightning_Talks">Lightning Talks</span></h3> <p>Do you want to hold a lightning talk during SotM? Registration is here: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/registration_lightning_talks" title="State of the Map 2020/registration lightning talks">Registration of lightning talks</a></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Self-organized_sessions">Self-organized sessions</span></h3> <p>During SotM there will be a lot of program around the official talks. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/self-organized_sessions_howto" title="State of the Map 2020/self-organized sessions howto"> How to prepare a self-organized session for SotM 2020?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/self-organized_sessions" title="State of the Map 2020/self-organized sessions"> SotM 2020 self-organized sessions</a></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Help_for_speakers">Help for speakers</span></h3> <p>We prepared a tutorial to help speakers prepare their video: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/Tutorial_Pre-Recorded_Talk" class="mw-redirect" title="State of the Map 2020/Tutorial Pre-Recorded Talk">Tutorial pre-recorded talk</a></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="SotM_T-Shirt:_Organization_of_shops">SotM T-Shirt: Organization of shops</span></h3> <p>Although we are virtual this year we plan to have a conference t-shirt. The t-shirt won't be included in a ticket price as we won't sell tickets for the virtual conference. So everybody has to buy the t-shirt for themselves. To keep shipping costs low and reasonable we are trying to find shops all over the world. We are organizing this at the wiki page <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/Tshirt_shop_organization" title="State of the Map 2020/Tshirt shop organization">State_of_the_Map_2020/Tshirt shop organization</a>. You cannot buy t-shirts at this shops for SotM yet. As soon as we open the t-shirt sale we will provide this information at the SotM website. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/Tshirt_shop_organization" title="State of the Map 2020/Tshirt shop organization">State_of_the_Map_2020/Tshirt shop organization</a></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Booklet">Booklet</span></h3> <p>This year's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://2020.stateofthemap.org/booklet.pdf">conference booklet</a> is available for download as a PDF. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Interaction">Interaction</span></h3> <p>There are different ways to interact with other participants this year: </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Social_Media">Social Media</span></h4> <ul><li>Official <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://t.me/sotm2018">Telegram group</a>.</li> <li>Follow <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/sotm">@SotM</a></b> on Twitter and use the hashtag <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sotm2020">#sotm2020</a></b> when tweeting.</li></ul> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="IRC">IRC</span></h4> <p>We opened the channel <b>#osm-sotm-ct</b> on the OFTC <a href="/wiki/IRC" title="IRC">IRC</a> server for general SotM related chat and discussions. You can use a dedicated IRC-capable chat application or join through a browsers <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=%23osm-sotm-ct">via this link</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Feedback">Feedback</span></h3> <p>Everybody is welcome to give feedback to SotM 2020 at this page <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/feedback" title="State of the Map 2020/feedback">State_of_the_Map_2020/feedback</a>! </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Team_picture">Team picture</span></h3> <p>The team pic is composed of volunteered images and assembled in a random way. Please feel free to edit, improve, update with an image that represents you - be that your profile image, your user name, a cartoon, your cat, whatever you are comfortable with. Please contact indiebio for help on IRC or Telegram. </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Sotm_teampic_2020.svg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/6/65/Sotm_teampic_2020.svg/300px-Sotm_teampic_2020.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="424" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/6/65/Sotm_teampic_2020.svg/450px-Sotm_teampic_2020.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/6/65/Sotm_teampic_2020.svg/600px-Sotm_teampic_2020.svg.png 2x" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Sotm_teampic_2020.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>SotM Online 2020 team image</div></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Community_write-ups">Community write-ups</span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="EN">EN</span></h3> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%98ukasz/diary/393489">SOTM 2020 notes #1</a> - Øukasz</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%C3%98ukasz/diary/393513">SOTM 2020 notes #2</a> - Øukasz</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.imagico.de/sotm-2020-a-few-thoughts-on-the-experiment/">SotM 2020 – a few thoughts on the experiment</a> - Imagico</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="ES">ES</span></h3> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mariotomo/diary/393640">Reflexiones al margen de la conferencia SotM-2020 virtual</a> - Mariotomo</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="RU">RU</span></h3> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Zkir/diary/393560">КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ SOTM 2020 — ВПЕЧАТЛЕНИЯ</a> - Zkir</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shtosm.ru/all/state-of-the-map-u-vas-doma/">State of the Map у вас дома</a> - ШТОСМ</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sponsorship">Sponsorship</span></h2> <p>We will be seeking <b>sponsors</b> of the online conference, and it's never too early to get in touch about that. Would your company would be interested in supporting OpenStreetMap in this way? Write to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:sponsor-sotm@openstreetmap.org">sponsor-sotm@openstreetmap.org</a> for information. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Cape_Town_-_our_host_city_in_2020">Cape Town - our host city in 2020</span></h2> <p>Congratulations to Cape Town on winning the hosting bid. This was announced in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://media.ccc.de/v/sotm2019-2477-closing#t=1663">the closing session at SOTM2019</a> </p><p>The University of Cape Town is <a class="external text" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.9574&mlon=18.4610#map=18/-33.9574/18.4610">located here on the map</a> </p><p>Checkout the <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/Call_for_venues/CapeTown" title="State of the Map 2020/Call for venues/CapeTown">winning hosting bid</a> for more information about Cape Town, and the venue building. </p><p>The local team of Cape Town also stays our local team for the virtual SotM! </p> <div style="clear:both;margin:2px 0;border:2px solid #000;padding:2px 0.5em;text-align:center"> <div style="border-bottom:1px dotted gray"><b>The international <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Map" title="State of the Map">State of the Map</a> conferences</b> <span class="plainlinks" style="font-size:87%;line-height:1.2;padding:0 .25em"><a 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