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The OSMF (OpenStreetMap Foundation) is providing a questionnaire about its past and future activities. This is a great opportunity to get involved in the direction of OSM with little effort. All mappers are invited to participate! The questionnaire is open for responses until Sunday, February 14, 2021.

There is even a German-language version available: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=de

History will be made on Friday, January 8, 2021, when the first purely virtual OSM Stammtisch Austria takes place! From about 7:00 p.m., you can enter the https://senfcall.de room called “osm-stammtisch-austria” at the link https://lecture.senfcall.de/mar-s8m-i4l-77g.

The organization is done via the wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Austria/Stammtisch. Concrete topics are still being sought. If anyone would like to present an interesting project or other undertaking, please either enter it in the wiki, announce it on the mailing list or forum, or let me know. Of course, spontaneous topics are also welcome; after all, it’s a regulars’ table. ;-)

Short version: The chat can be reached at: https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=osm-at or https://app.element.io/#/room/#osm-at:matrix.org

Original announcement: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2021-January/011011.html

Mapper stefanct has set up an IRC chat room for the Austrian OSM community! This can be accessed with any IRC chat program at irc://irc.oftc.net/osm-at. You can also join directly via a web browser by simply entering a username: https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=osm-at

Mapper Negreheb has linked this IRC chat with the existing OSM Austria chat from Matrix, which can be accessed at https://matrix.to/#/#osm-at:matrix.org. This means that you can read and write via a web interface without having to install any software, using a Matrix web client (e.g. “Element”). The direct link for the “Element” interface is: https://app.element.io/#/room/#osm-at:matrix.org

Are you an OpenStreetMap Foundation member? Then you can (and should) still take part in the OSMF board election 2020 until Saturday (12.12.2020)! If you don’t know what the individual candidates stand for, you can read a Q&A of each candidate on this page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM20/Election_to_Board/Answers_and_manifestos

Every person entitled to vote should have received an email from the OSMF with the link to the vote.

On October 29, 2020 from 7:00 pm, there will be an online OSM meet-up at https://meet.metalab.at/OSMStammtisch!

The program and further details will be compiled at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Wien/Stammtisch.

Original announcement from https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2020-October/010767.html:

Hello, everyone!

On Thursday, October 29th, 2020, from 7:00 p.m., a virtual *OpenStreetMap meet-up will take place! The Viennese hackerspace Metalab (https://metalab.at/) has allowed us to use their Jitsi server for an online meet-up.

The URL for joining is: https://meet.metalab.at/OSMStammtischWien

The website of the Stammtisch is still: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Wien/Stammtisch https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Wien/Stammtisch

The videos of the OSGeo Days lectures at AGIT 2020, kindly provided by the AGIT organization, are now online on YouTube and the TIB AV-Portal!

The lectures were grouped into three blocks, with each block being an entire video.

Block 1 ( Link to video on TIB AV: https://av.tib.eu/media/49229 ) contains:

• Arnulf Christl (Metaspatial, Germany): The mind is willing, but habit is tenacious: On the difficulties of introducing agile development methods and open source in public administration at the state and federal level
• Jürgen Hahn (GISolutions e.U.): VectorTiles and their display on the web generated from PostGIS using Tegola or mbtiles using tileserver-gl
• Jörg Thomsen (WhereGroup GmbH): MapServer status report
• Markus Mayr (OSGeo / OpenStreetMap): Geo-Services with PostGIS, GeoServer and pREST
• Questions

Block 2 ( Link to video on TIB AV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njrwasa5YFo ) contains:

Since the planned FOSSGIS & OSM Community Meeting at the Linuxhotel Essen will not take place due to the current situation, the German FOSSGIS Association invites you to a virtual meeting on September 27, 2020 starting at 1:30 p.m.. A joint virtual dinner is planned to start at 7:00 p.m. :-)

The original announcement can be found at https://lists.fossgis.de/pipermail/fossgis-talk-liste/2020-September/010789.html

If the journey has been too far up to now, this is a great opportunity to participate from afar! Prior registration at https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSSGIS_OSM_Communitytreffen_2020_Nummer_14 is requested for capacity estimation purposes!

We have found a great replacement for the Vienna OSM meetups: We are going hiking!

On Sunday, August 23, 2020

starting point is the beginning of the city hiking trail 5 (Bisamberg route, https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/wald/freizeit/wandern/wege/wanderweg5.html) in Stammersdorf (terminal stop of the 31 tram line), where we will set off at 1:00 p.m. to follow the city hiking trail of the same name!

( https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/stadtwanderwege-wien_489242 )

So it’s better to come a little earlier so that we can gather. I will make sure that the group is recognizable as the OSM hiking group.

Due to the current pandemic, AGIT 2020 cannot be held locally. The organizers will hold it virtually instead!

OSGeo/FOSSGIS/OpenStreetMap have also received a sponsored virtual exhibition stand for the virtual conference! (Thank you, AGIT !)

Since it is hardly possible to have a virtual exhibition stand attended by volunteers for 5 days via video link (who have to go to work during the weekdays), we have come up with the following idea:

edit: the Maker Faire has been canceled due to the uncertain planning situation for 2020! edit: the Maker Faire has been postponed to October 3-4, 2020!

The Austrian OpenStreetMap Association is promoting the OpenStreetMap project at the Maker Faire Vienna for the second time this year! This will take place on May 16 and 17, 2020 (FR & SA).

We are already looking forward to this exciting fair in the great location of MetaStadt.