StateoftheMap Organizing Committee/Minutes/2018/2018-07-23 Meeting

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Time and location: 2018-07-09 19:00 UTC, HOT Mumble server

Present: Alessandro, Benoît, Christine, Francesco, Gregory, Mikel, Rob

Lead: Rob

Scholars

  • one scholar still without visa
  • hand cash for scholars on Friday is deposited by Frederik in their hotel


Poster entries

Venue

  • waiting for a bank account number to transfer the money


Lanyards

  • 400 blank lanyards arrived
  • tomorrow 3 people will write the nametags
  • Rob unhappy about approach, preferred digital solution discussed last week


Stickers

  • arrived


Programme

  • Special Session
    • description to be reviewed and published on the website
    • slides: Gregory has not incorporated the requested changes by the working groups yet
  • Overpass session:
    • asking Roland via email for a changed title and description


All Speakers need a ticket

  • CityZen talk not signed up but wrote that he will do
  • a lightning tallk dropped out
  • namespaces LT: speaker not sure if he can attend, we did receive any further response by him, session to be left in the programme
  • Daniel Mietchen LT: will buy ticket after he is back from Wikimania conference, likely tomorrow


  • Rob pulled slides together, they look ok
  • Rob will add public Telegram group


Older Minutes

  • waiting to be published (when Michael has time to do)


Blog post

  • published on the website
  • the Google doc looks to be good to be sent via email to all attendees
  • other content for that email:
    • public gathering on Friday evening: no plans yet
      • Alessandro suggests near Wikimedia office, it is a big building with bars around
      • Alessandro to ask those who know the nightlife in Milan better than himself
      • more details tomorrow


Opening sessions

  • slides posted on GitHub
  • Michael suggests to add metro map showing location of
  • question if there is a shorter URL than the existing Telegram channel join URL
    • solution: short URL in slides, QR code/URL printed and hang up at several locations in the venue


Surveys

  • aim to publish them in the week after the conference
  • no extra payment necessary
  • there is a lot to do on the survey for non-attendees


Communication during SotM (in the team)

  • link to Telegram group shared


Duplicated Talk

  • Proposals:
    • remove non-academic talk, move Pauls talk into it
    • remove academic talk, use backup academic
  • decision for the latter


Local code of conduct person

  • Italian speaking volunteer is Francesca
  • She is available if Gregory is not present or they don't want to talk to Gregory.


Differences between printed guidebook and online programme

  • Lunch and afternoon break in booklet and on the website are different. Decision: lunch like booklet, last break as online


First meeting with volunteers

  • was last week


Cash during the event

  • How will we manage cash of last-minutes signups in the venue and purchases of tickets for the social event


Leftover T-shirts

  • Leftover T-shirts can be sold by the local community as we did in Japan.


Next meeting

  • 13 August 2018

The meeting ended on 20:03 UTC.

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