Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread Parveen Arora
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
 The date for the OSM seventh birthday is coming up.  Soon.  But when?

 Which date  shall we set this year?  Previous OSM birthdays have been
 celebrated around August on

 20 August 2010
 22 August 2009
 02 August 2008
 11 August 2007
 12 August 2006


Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day, Can't we
declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday?
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Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:45 +0530, Parveen Arora wrote:
 Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day, Can't we
 declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday? 

that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating this
mission critical point.


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Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread Simon Poole

We definitely need the BWG (Birthday Working Group).

:-)

Am 22.07.2011 12:23, schrieb kenneth gonsalves:

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:45 +0530, Parveen Arora wrote:

Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day, Can't we
declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday?

that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating this
mission critical point.


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Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread Ed Loach
Parveen Arora wrote:
 Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day,
 Can't we
 declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday?

Kenneth replied:
 
 that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating
 this
 mission critical point.

Well let mine be the next :)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History
suggests either 9th August (anniversary of domain name being
registered) or 20th August (Steve's presentation at EuroFOO) are
worthy candidates.

As presumably though the idea predated registering the domain name,
I'd argue that the 9th August would be the obvious choice of
something to base anniversaries on.

Ed


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Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
 Parveen Arora wrote:
 Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day,
 Can't we
 declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday?

 Kenneth replied:

 that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating
 this
 mission critical point.

 Well let mine be the next :)
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History
 suggests either 9th August (anniversary of domain name being
 registered) or 20th August (Steve's presentation at EuroFOO) are
 worthy candidates.

 As presumably though the idea predated registering the domain name,
 I'd argue that the 9th August would be the obvious choice of
 something to base anniversaries on.

Fair enough.  I suggest that we plan ahead for an official Birthday
week around Thursday, 09 August *2012*, and go with 20 August this
year to allow more planning time.  I made a wiki page for this
yesterday because I am impatient and love to throw parties. ;-)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_7th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

Toronto is already on the list.  Feel free to a) join us here, or b)
throw your own local OSM Birthday bash.

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Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread Matt Williams
On 22 July 2011 12:37, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
 Parveen Arora wrote:
 Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day,
 Can't we
 declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday?

 Kenneth replied:

 that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating
 this
 mission critical point.

 Well let mine be the next :)
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History
 suggests either 9th August (anniversary of domain name being
 registered) or 20th August (Steve's presentation at EuroFOO) are
 worthy candidates.

 As presumably though the idea predated registering the domain name,
 I'd argue that the 9th August would be the obvious choice of
 something to base anniversaries on.

Makes sense to me, especially given
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2005-July/000830.html

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[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-21 Thread Richard Weait
The date for the OSM seventh birthday is coming up.  Soon.  But when?

Which date  shall we set this year?  Previous OSM birthdays have been
celebrated around August on

20 August 2010
22 August 2009
02 August 2008
11 August 2007
12 August 2006

I suggest Saturday, 20 August 2011, and I offer one of our global
party venues in Toronto.  What say you?  On what date will you
celebrate seven years of OSM in your town?

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