I have been asked to be the banquet speaker at the NACIS 2019 conference in Tacoma, Washington, on October 18th. The topic will be “Open Source Mapping in a Closed Society”, i.e., the cartographic work in Turkmenistan between 2015 and 2019. It is an honor to be asked to speak at the banquet, but I feel compelled to ask fellow mappers who followed my work in Turkmenistan: what points do YOU think I should be sure to cover in my presentation?