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This year again, there is the [‘netidee’ funding pot] (https://www.netidee.at/), in which some of the projects submitted are sponsored with up to €50,000. Submissions are still possible until 17 July 2018. There are bound to be some OpenStreetMap or FOSSGIS projects that would fit in there.

The requirements for submitting a project are that all results are and remain open source or are published under a Creative Commons licence.

https://www.netidee.at

Original announcement on the talk-at mailing list:

Dear colleagues, On Thursday, the 21st at 6:00 p.m., there will be another Upper Styrian OSM Stammtisch! https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Leoben/Stammtisch

Lg, Gppes

The place is as usual ‘Zum Italo-Steirer’ in the Bachgasse 8 in Leoben (Göß).

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 6:00 pm, the second meeting of the Vienna GIS scene will take place under the name ViennaGeo Meetup!

The details of the programme, which also includes OpenStreetMap, are as follows:

we will meet this time at the ‘donau city treff’ [www.dctreff.at](http://www.dctreff.at ‘www.dctreff.at’) which is a few metres from the U1 underground station ‘Alte Donau’ [https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31472469](https://www.openstreetmap. org/way/31472469 ‘https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31472469’) food and drinks will be available during the meetup. everyone pays their own bill.

The FrOSCon, an important conference on open-source software at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, is looking for talks! Contributions can still be submitted until 23 May 2018. The list of topics sought includes the entry ‘GIS’ (GeoInformationSoftware).

There will even be a separate sub-conference on OSM!

Original mail:

FrOSCON 2018 with OSGeo & OSM sub-conference ——————————-———- Open Geospatial, OpenStreetMap, OpenData, free software from the GIS sector

For the second time, there will be a sub-conference at FrOSCon about free geodata and software. FOSSGIS e.V. (http://fossgis.de) is organising this track and is looking for talks about OpenStreetMap, free geodata, free software in the field of GIS and more. Lightening talks (20 min) as well as longer talks (45 min) can be submitted.

On 17 May 2018, a Vienna OSM meet-up will take place!

Original text of the email:

Dear fellow mappers! On Thursday, 17 May 2018, after a break of almost a year, an OSM meet-up will take place again at Wieden Bräu! We meet at 6:30 p.m., if we can get a seat in the beer garden, otherwise inside in the warm (cool?) room.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wien/Stammtisch

Best regards, ScubbX

The first day of Linuxwochen 2018 in Vienna is over!

In addition to many interesting lectures on blockchain, Vienna GIS or optimising PostgreSQL databases, there was also an OSM stand again this year, right next to the Mozilla stand, where a browser-based virtual reality solution including VR glasses could be tried out.

[caption id=“attachment_507” align=“alignnone” width=“450”] Kairo at the Mozilla stand at Linuxwochen 2018[/caption]

The OSM booth was manned by ScubbX and, from the afternoon onwards, by BearT as well. We are already looking forward to tomorrow, Friday!

The Austrian OpenStreetMap Association is holding its general meeting on 4 May 2018 at 6:00 p.m. at the Linuxtage at the FH Technikum Wien. The meeting point is the OSM stand in the foyer.

This is the original announcement from the mailing list:

Hello!

I hereby invite all members of the OpenStreetMap Austria association to the 2018 general meeting.

When: 4 May 2018, 19:00 18:00 Where: Meet at the OSM stand at Linuxwochen Wien (FH Technikum Wien) Room will be announced on site

Original announcement on the talk-at mailing list:

Welcome to the OSM Stammtisch Obersteiermark!

When: Thursday, 19 April 2018, from 6:00 pm Where: ‘Zum Italo-Steirer’, Bachgasse 8, Leoben (Göß) Table reservation: On ‘OpenStreetMap’

A few topics have already been decided. Further suggestions are welcome:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Leoben/Stammtisch

We almost always stay until 22:00.

A transfer from the station to the table and back is also possible if required - please message me.

Best regards, Borut (Borut@OSM)

From 18-03-2018 to 25-03-2018, an OsGeo CodeSprint is taking place in Bonn at the extremely impressive BaseCamp hostel: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018. My colleague BearT and I (ScubbX) have been there since Monday and Sunday respectively. While I will be attending the FOSSGIS conference, which is taking place at the same time, from Wednesday, BearT had to leave on Tuesday for work reasons.

[caption id=“attachment_484” align=“alignnone” width=“1500”] The base camp building in Bonn[/caption]

What immediately catches the eye is the impressive structure of the hostel. From the outside, it looks like a large factory hall. As soon as you enter through the unassuming front door, you enter a world of its own: the entire hall is open and filled with campervans in different designs. A gallery is built along one side of the hall, where the kitchen and dining areas are located. But these places can also be used for code sprinting, as the GRASS-GIS team has demonstrated.

The venue for the International OpenStreetMap Conference (SotM) 2019 is being sought!

Applications to host the event can be made until 6 March 2018. Details can be found at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2019/Call_for_venues.