Welcome everyone! So this is a less formal, but still official channel for everything related to the State of the Map 2022. There is still the group, @sotm2018, where you can (and should!) post photos and discuss the weather.

Here I'll be doing the same thing I've been doing since 2016 on the Russian channel @foss4g_ru: having fun at the conference and around it, posting photos and sharing insights from talks and chats. It was safer in Russian, since I could moan at reading slides verbatim or using tiny grey-on-white letters on slides without being heard by speakers. Hope you've all increased your font size to the max :)

My plane is tomorrow morning. Until then, I've nothing to share besides my super-engaging telegram bot: @sotm_intro_bot. Please please connect to it, type in your full name and record a 10-second video for it. You've got infinite number of tries and you can delete yourself from it. When we've got at least 50 or 100 people there, we could get to know each other before even seeing us in person! Imagine how wonderful it would be to come to the campus and realize you've seen half of those people.

Have fun (this is an order), and see you tomorrow evening at the OFF BAR!