I'm trying to organize one in the Tulsa area, using this Google
eventhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c3ohfbgso96b1ahm1li1hba5aucto
organize and promote it.
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'd like to announce the fellow of the night of the living maps party:
Operation cowboy :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/Operation_cowboyhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy
Guess what, this time it's about mapping the US :)
The date is the weekend from 23.11 till Sunday, so everybody should have a
chance to get a day, where he can join a local party.
To make it more easy to get a room, I give you this announcement already
today, even if there are still some todos (detailed mission statement,
party map, logo, ...).
So please still wait with an official announcement to the public, I bet we
can fix this things next week.
So if you like to *start a local party* , create a wiki page (or reuse the
local user group page or your city page) and paste/adapt this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/Template:Operation_cowboyhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Operation_cowboy
Cool mappers can add this button to the user page, too ;)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/Template:User_OPChttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_OPC
But hey, I would *need still some help* , to get all the things ready:
1. *Sponsoring*
I already tried to contact OSMF but without an answer. Can anybody please
ask them again, if they would donate a few bugs per local party, to attract
organisers? Or what about the GIS-Companies around OSM, would they cater a
party in their HQs?
2. *Social media*
Is there anybody who likes to start further social channels as facebook
etc? It's pretty simple, just to spread the things we post at Twitter and
of course answer questions and present the project (create events ...).
3. *Wiki translation*
Would be great if the wiki could be translated in other languages as well.
(maybe you can recycle old NOTLM translations). Oh and fixing my low level
english would be really nice ;)
Later:
Creating a thank you all poster with all teams or actually a video clip
with animated edits and country music would be a great finale.
If you have any questions/ideas, just post it. I think all general critics
on armchair mapping or our choice of the target area would be better in a
seperated topic, as the past showed, that they generate a lot of traffic.
So I wish you good luck for finding an appreachated location and I'm happy
looking towards our 2nd global mapping action :)
cya,
Matthias
(user:!i!)
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