StateoftheMap Organizing Committee/Minutes/2018/2018-06-11 Meeting

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Time and location: 2018-06-11 19:00 UTC, HOT Mumble server

Present: Christine, Mikel, Michael, Francesco, Alessandro, Marco, Benoît, Gregory

Lead: Mikel

Minutes by: Michael, Gregory

  • We don't care for adblockers.
  • Francesco to contact designer of our banner & logo and aks her to adapt it to the banner

#Special session: How OSMF works and how you can get involved (#122)

  • Michael suggests a talk at the beginning explaining the foundation
 (what, when/why/how it was founded, …) and later "booths"
 in the room where one representative of the working groups
 is available for questions.
  • Michael to email the board, then later the working groups if the board agrees
  • Michael is available as session host but anyone else can also do

Gaps in the schedule, ranking of reserve talks (#121)

  • one gap filled with Ben's OSM embassy talk, second gap filled with volunteer drive session
  • further discussion on third and fourth talk on the GitHub ticket

Press pass (#119)

Merchandise production (#103–106, #116)

Stickers (#116)

  • 5 cm large, about EUR 250 for 1000 stickers (each participant can get two ones)

Lanyards (#105)

  • 60 cent per piece, 500 pieces
  • we have to buy lanyards and the paper inlay separately
  • volunteers put them into the sleeves in advance (enough volunteers available)

T-shirts (#104)

  • deadline for ordering is on 22th June (one month in advance)
  • 180 registrations now
  • we have to guess remaining registrations
  • vast majority has to be ordered one month in advance, up to 100 T-shirs may be ordered later
  • final decision on June 20th
  • Gregory to look up numbers and ratios from Brussels

Recording the Apple talk (#124)

The talk about Apple will not be recorded due to a request by the speaker (lacks permission by the company). Paul Norman wrote an email to the working asking for reasons why the talk was accepted.

  • We took in a lot of consideration about the popularity (community & team)
  • It was discussed in depth the unfortune of not being possible to record, with views from those holding back from accepting it on those grounds.
  • It was considered to put it in an unrecorded track, but we expected to need a larger room.
  • Sharing of content by delegates is not forbidden, there will just not be any "official" recording.
  • There has not been an OSMF board discussion on this, the programme is deemed to be within the remit of the SotM-WG.
  • Christine to answer Paul's email.

How many local chapters want a table at SotM?

  • Knowledge from UK, France, Belgium, Germany groups is that they don't need a table to themselves. So maybe 1 or 2 tables to share amongst local chapters.

SotM 2019

  • to be talked about in 2 weeks time.
  • aim to announce at SotM

Meeting ended 19:56 UTC