Re: [Talk-ca] Is it time to set up a openstreetmap.ca organization / registered charity?

2010-04-28 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:19 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: It could look after things such as the Openstreetmap.ca domain, forward a few dollars into europe keep the servers going, possibly raise a few dollars to purchase a couple of GPS devices for street mapping parties, even

[Talk-ca] Is it time to set up a openstreetmap.ca organization / registered charity?

2010-04-27 Thread john whelan
It could look after things such as the Openstreetmap.ca domain, forward a few dollars into europe keep the servers going, possibly raise a few dollars to purchase a couple of GPS devices for street mapping parties, even send a few to Africa etc to help Openstreetmap over there. The Charitable

Re: [Talk-ca] Is it time to set up a openstreetmap.ca organization / registered charity?

2010-04-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:19 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: It could look after things such as the Openstreetmap.ca domain, forward a few dollars into europe keep the servers going, possibly raise a few dollars to purchase a couple of GPS devices for street mapping parties, even

Re: [Talk-ca] Is it time to set up a openstreetmap.ca organization / registered charity?

2010-04-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
Yup, and if anyone wants to help out a little more, they can jump in the #osm IRC and help out a newbie. And if your looking for Canadian content, help man the #osm-ca IRC (i'm not always on it, and i dont need to answer if someone else is able to). There are 3 OSGeo groups in Canada, and they