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This year, for the first time, we participated as the Local Chapter OSM Austria in the Grazer Linuxtage (GLT, https://www.linuxtage.at/de/). The Grazer Linuxtage took place from April 14th to April 15th. On the first day, only workshops were held, with Stefan Tiran conducting a very well-attended JOSM workshop (https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt23/talk/JZSDTZ/).

On the second day, various lectures and information stands were on the program. OSM Austria presented itself at its information stand in the usual way. We were there with 4 colleagues:

Viewed on February 11, 2023: In the Beethoven section of the [House of Music (Vienna)] (https://www.hausdermusik.com/), a museum about music, there is a digital map that uses OpenStreetMap data!

On February 22, 2023, the Vienna OSM community will meet starting at 7:00 p.m. at Schlupfwinkel (Kleine Neugasse 10, 1040 Vienna).

Details at: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wien/Stammtisch/2023-02-22

The date for the next (8th) virtual online Stammtisch of the Austrian OSM community can already be noted (we always set the dates for the next two meet-ups during the current meet-up so that it is easier to plan).

Just as the established rhythm of every three months has proven itself, the 8th online meet-up will take place on March 8, March 2023! (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Austria/Stammtisch/2023-03-08)

The location is as usual in the Jitsi room: https://meet.jit.si/openstreetmapvirtuellerstammtisch

From March 15 to 18, 2023, FOSSGIS 2023, the largest German-language conference for open source software for geoinformation and OpenStreetMap, will take place in Berlin!

Contributions can be submitted until November 7, 2022. Details can be found at https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2023/callforpapers/

These own contributions can be:

• Lightning Talks (short 5-minute presentations)

• Presentations (20-minute presentation + 5 minutes for questions)

• Presentations with paper (a peer-reviewed, citable paper with a presentation)

• Demo sessions (45 minutes of “live hacking” + 10 minutes of discussion)

The time has come: On September 30th, the old OSM forum and possibly also the mailing list will be retired and replaced by the new “OSM communities”: https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/at/59

The OSM Communities are a kind of modern web forum with simple options for awarding (+1), creating polls, for discussions in sub-threads or simply for linear conversations - as before.

A short description of the new forum “OSM-Communities” can be found in a post within the forum itself: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/uber-die-kategorie-osterreich-austria/3058

The international annual OSM conference “State of the Map” (SotM) took place in Florence from August 19 to 21, 2022: https://2022.stateofthemap.org/

Participants and OSM-specific organizations from all over the world were present at this extremely exciting and successful conference. What was also special about this event was that it was a hybrid event, which meant that you could also participate via the internet, at least during the exciting talks. However, the many conversations and exchanges of information with the other conference participants, OSM developers and mappers on site were an experience that no online participation can replace.

After almost 2 years, it’s time again for a real-life Stammtisch in Vienna!

The meeting point is, as in the past, the Wieden Bräu at Waaggasse 5, 1040 Vienna from 7:00 PM. If the weather is nice, we will meet in the beer garden.

Details can be found at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wien/Stammtisch

As part of the GI_Salzburg_22, the OSM-AT association gave a lecture on the content of OpenStreetMap, OGD data sources and FOSSGIS/OSGeo software products.

The slides can be downloaded here: https://www.openstreetmap.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/presentation_combined.pdf

The video of the lecture is available at:

• Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZzwAXZqQL94

From July 6th to July 7th, 2022, the successor to AGIT, the GI_Salzburg, took place in Salzburg. We, the OSM-AT association, were there to present the OpenStreetMap project, the FOSSGIS association and OSGeo.

Travel and setup

The journey began on Tuesday, July 6, 2022. Since we have quite a bit of trade fair material and FOSSGIS e.V. had sent us banners, advertising material, and stickers with FOSSGIS and OSGeo-specific material by post, mapper geologist volunteered to drive and drove to Salzburg together with mapper ScubbX.