State of the Map 2021/self-organized sessions

What is a self-organized session?

Besides the main programme of SotM we want to offer space for self-organized sessions. In past years, those sessions were a large success. A lot of topics are well placed in smaller rounds. The only requirement that we have to your topic is that it has to be related to OpenStreetMap.

We use this wiki page for the organization of such sessions so that everybody is able to jump in without any larger formal barrier. The only requirements we have is that the participants have a conference ticket which grants them access to the conference platform that we use and that they abide to the SotM Code of Conduct.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask us - please email to program-sotm@openstreetmap.org.

Technical requirements

From a technical point of view, a self organized session is a video conference. You and your participants need a computer with a microphone and ideally a camera. The video conference itself takes place in a web browser using BigBlueButton (BBB). If you are the host of such a video conference, please test your equipment beforehand (you could use the BBB instance provided by the OSMF for this). The BBB rooms in the conference platform can hold up to 100 participants.

We currently offer 3 BBB rooms for self-organized sessions - if this is not enough, please get in touch, we should be able to organize more if needed.

Registration of a self-organized sessions

If you want to hold a self-organized session, just put it in one of the below tables. The duration doesn't need to be precise, but this helps other session organizers to schedule their session at a time when your session is supposed to be finished. Please use the OsmUser template (using something like {{OsmUser|Your OSM username}}) or OSM wiki user name (using something like [[User:YourOSMWikiUserName|YourOSMWikiUserName]] ([[User talk:YourOSMWikiUserName|talk]]) (which you can automatically do by entering three swung dashes (~~~))) in the organizer column - this provides us a simple way to contact you if needed.

BoFs and more

Friday, 9 July 2021

Room	Breakout 1			Breakout 2			Breakout 3
Time in UTC	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer
09:00 UTC	1h	Sample BoF in Breakout 1	Sample organizer
13:00 UTC	1h	Open Mapping Hub- Asia Pacific: Starting the ball rolling Open Mapping Hub is a new initiative. The goal of this session is to share the direction we are taking and solicit suggestions from others.	Nama Budhathoki
18:45 UTC	1h	OpenStreetMap in support of UN Peacekeeping missions: Unite Maps & UN Mappers: Q&A from Lightning Talk and meeting with team members Spare time to ask any question related to Unite Maps and UN Mappers, meet and chill out with the members of the team	Michael Montani (talk), Rachele Amerini, Severin Menard

Saturday, 10 July 2021

Room	Breakout 1			Breakout 2			Breakout 3
Time in UTC	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer
6:00 UTC	1 hour	Community Coffee Checkin - Global OSM, Diversity, Inclusion  (ask for Session plan and shared notes)	Heather Leson, Trudy, Yogesh, HOT, GeoChicas
09:00 UTC	1 hr	RainbOSM Social 🏳️‍🌈 Green (EuroBrunch) A social meet & greet for LGBTQ+ people in OSM. ('green' because that's a colour of the rainbow, and it's brunchtime in europe)	Amᵃᵖanda (talk)	1h	Sample BoF in Breakout 2	SampleOrganizer (talk)
13:30 UTC				1 hour	Community Coffee Checkin - Global OSM, Diversity and Inclusion	Arnalie Vicario / GeoLadies PH, Celine Jacquin, (Mapeadora), Heather Leson, HOT, GeoChicas (ask for session plan and shared notes)
16:00 UTC	1h	Thematic Editing Apps: Let's discuss our experience with apps like OSM Contributor and StreetComplete and collect ideas on better editors. Notes.	Ilya Zverev

Sunday, 11 July 2021

Room	Breakout 1			Breakout 2			Breakout 3
Time in UTC	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer	Duration	Session Title and Description	Organizer
09:00 UTC							1h	Sample BoF in Breakout 3	Sample organizer
13:00 UTC	1h	Paid-editing or Paid-mapping: Reflections from local communities and contributors Description: Increasing Local Knowledge on the Map - Is OSM just crowdsourcing or is also #crowdworking? Paid-editing/paid mapping is a controversial issue concerning Big Corporations taking over OSM, but can we talk about how paid-editing/paid mapping can enrich local knowledge on the Map? Agenda and more details here: https://pads.ccc.de/b8dLRJz3ej	Various local communities: OSM Africa, OSM PH, [add yours here] (moderated by Geoffrey, Mikko and Arnalie)
17:00 UTC	1h	highway=street discussion Following on mvexel (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)'s lightning talk Saturday, discuss the merits of Proposed features/highway=street. Notes will be here: https://hackmd.io/@mvexel/highwaystreet/edit . Add your discussion topics there too.	mvexel (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)	3h	Academic Track - Post-Talk Chat Room for speakers	Academic Track Scientific Committee
19:00 UTC	1h	Chat about Open Railway Map editing and tagging Description: This is a Birds of a Feather for the world railway editors to get together. railway=* Conversation topics: Open Street Map, Open Railway Map, Open Historical Map, and tagging.	(moderated by Natfoot)