Dear Mappers,

Forthcoming year there are several events announced - not only for techies and not only in english:

* 8.+9. Juni 2016: GEOSummit 2016 (de/fr/en), Bern Expo, Berne (CH). www.geosummit.ch (Call-for-Papers bis 31. Januar 2016, Call-for-Posters bis 31. März 2016)

* 4.-6. Juli 2016: FOSSGIS 2016 (de/en), Uni Salzburg (A). www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/ (CfP bis 1. Februar 2016)

* 24.-26 August 2016: FOSS4G 2016 - Open Source GIS Conference (en), Bonn (D). http://2016.foss4g.org/ (CfP ca. March 2016)

* 23.-25. September 2016: State of the Map (SoTM) - OpenStreetMap Conference (en). Brussels (B). http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ (CfP soon)

I can recommend everybody to participate these events and I suggest that techies think about submitting a contribution.

I can especially recommend to submit your/our project as a poster to GEOSummit 2016! This has a low barrier to entry and a highly promising setting.

:Stefan