Hi Mikel--
Can you tell us about the program selection process? How will talk
proposals be evaluated and selected?
Thanks!
Kathleen
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm delighted to report that the planning for State of the Map 2016 is
>
A decade of OSM deserves more than a single day of celebration anyway! ;-)
On Aug 9, 2014 7:24 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Tulsa's 10th anniversary party is being postponed, probably one or two
weeks, due to venue unavailability. Code for America is helping organize
this, and
How exciting! Congratulations Martijn, Steve, Kristen and all the other
OSMers at Telenav!
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote:
Hi all,
At Telenav we have started making the switch to OSM today, as you may have
seen around the web and twitter.
I
I will be there for (almost) sure! I'm planning to submit a talk, but
haven't decided what yet.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Hi all,
I know we're getting really close to SOTM US (only 5 weeks! check out
the program and registration details at
Thanks, Steve and Telenav! This is really great!
On Feb 1, 2014 5:49 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:
Hi
Do you have a meetup.com group primary for running OSM events within the
United States?
Have you organized two or more events in the last 6 months?
If you can answer yes to
Surprising probably no one, I have a lot of thoughts on this topic, so I've
been watching this conversation with interest.
Not to toot my own horn, but I gave a talk on this very subject at SOTM US
2013, which you can watch here:
Hi All,
In case you haven't already seen it, we've got a great lineup of events for
the 2014 winter #editathon happening in less than two weeks[1]. I wanted to
send a note to remind everyone about the event and also put out a call to
organizers because we've got some great resources we'd like to
By now you've seen calls for locations and organizer prep, but here it is--
the official Winter #Editathon announcement!
The weekend of January 18th and 19th we'll be gathering in homes, offices,
coffeeshops, and more across the US to work on improving OSM. You can work
on editing whatever you
to the wiki here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Winter_Editathon_2014
Cheers,
Kathleen
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/
Our next #Editathon will be held the weekend of January
Thanks for raising this-- I just took a look at the PA relation which
apparently was last edited by me (what?). There's a gap in my hometown
(which I may or may not have created). Fixing now!
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
On 11/27/13 8:26 AM,
Hi Jeff,
If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC) would like to put
together a proposal for DC, those of us on the board would be happy to read
it! What we need in a proposal can be found here:
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/
We'll need a very quick
...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, let me ask a few folks what they think, including Bonnie, and I'll get
back to the list. What are the preferred dates?
On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:29, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Jeff,
If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC
To be clear, we (as in, the OSM-US Board and Bonnie, our conference
organizer) are totally open to getting proposals from anywhere. We didn't
receive any during the CfP period and have been working on selecting a
location of our own. We aren't all the way there yet though, so more info
is welcome.
AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ok well don't let me get in your way! DC is always just a pretty easy
default location and Boundless (OpenGeo) has organized conferences there
before with MapBox. Happy to help if we can.
On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:37, Kathleen Danielson
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/
Our next #Editathon will be held the weekend of January 18-19, 2014. We've
opened up a call for locations [1]-- so add your city to the list!
During our most recent editathon we had 12 cities participating, and the
event has been growing
Mele,
That resource page is awesome! We should definitely put that into our
toolkit to help future editathon organizers!
DC's Editathon is happening later today!
KD
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Melelani Sax-Barnett saxb...@gmail.comwrote:
Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14
Hi Everyone,
Some of you know this already, but I've decided to throw my metaphorical
hat in the ring and run for a position on the OSM-US Board. You can read
why in my latest diary
entryhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KathleenLD/diary/20129
.
Don't forget to check out the Elections
...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
Also, it looks like we have some actual locations for some US events
this weekend too. San Francisco, Denver, Nashua, NH.
Thanks
Jason
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
As you all know, in honor of OpenStreetMap's
I only know a little about Burning Man (seriously, just what I read in Cory
Doctorow's Homeland), but mapping BRC makes sense to me.
Is it on the exact same location every year? In that case it seems like it
would make sense to update the map annually. If they are on different parts
of the
given
advance private access to survey shapefiles.
Yup, we have them for this year already, but are not always allowed to
release them without permission. Will report back ASAP.
-mike.
On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Kathleen Danielson wrote:
I only know a little about Burning Man
Clay, does this give you something to work with?
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com wrote:
I'd love to help with this, but I'm not much of a burner (first last:
2001) so I won't be able to follow up. Sorry!
-mike.
On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Jeffrey Johnson
free to ping me with any questions, or let me know if
you'd like to include your project in the sprint! (We'll just need someone
to take ownership for it, a place where contributors can find tasks and
ongoing discussion, and a lot of enthusiasm!)
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kathleen Danielson
As you all know, in honor of OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday, we are
holding a Birthday
Sprint http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/ next weekend, August 10th
- 11th. Since we can't all be in the same room (this time), this will be a
distributed code sprint, so you won't even need to get off the
Hi Martijn (and other board members),
Can you talk about the responsibilities of the board as well as the time
commitment that is expected? That would be helpful for people who are
considering running.
And the board is limited at 5 members, is that correct?
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM,
are much easier to change.)
On 7/30/13 1:56 PM, Kathleen Danielson wrote:
Hi Martijn (and other board members),
Can you talk about the responsibilities of the board as well as the time
commitment that is expected? That would be helpful for people who are
considering running.
And the board
Hi Clifford,
Wow--thanks for sharing those stats! They are really interesting!
I just took a look at the link you shared and it looks like we're seeing
the number of mappers contributing on any given day. Do you know if it's
possible to find the number of mappers contributing in a week or even
Kai-- those are some really great ideas around publicity!
Personally, I think we'd need a dedicated PR person on staff to fully
accomplish this. That's not really feasible in the near term, though-- so
maybe we should think about ways that we can break that down into
volunteer-sized tasks? This
Clifford, of your 4 ideas only getting coverage in mainstream press would
probably be effective.
Hey folks, just a quick note to be mindful of the way we're responding to
each other's ideas, and to be especially careful since as we all know,
tone is easily misread online.
(And thanks to Jason
and communication needs.
-Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
--
*From:* Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com
*To:* OpenStreetMap US Talk talk-us@openstreetmap.org
*Sent:* Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:31 PM
*Subject:* [Talk-us] Happy
Hi Everyone,
I hope you're all enjoying your Independence Day celebrations! I'm thinking
toward another upcoming anniversary-- OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday! I know
that folks are planning various celebrations in cities around the world,
and I thought that it might be a good idea to plan a
How clever! +1
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2013/6/26 stevea stevea...@softworkers.com
I regularly click on the History tab in a wide swath of Bay Area (my home
turf) looking for new edits, and especially, new mappers.
You might be
Quick question: will there be opportunities for armchair mappers to help,
or are you only looking for on-the-ground knowledge?
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:
During discussions in presentations at this years SOTM-US, participants
expressed a
Hi Alyssa,
You might want to think about distributing a survey to the list. The
results would be self-selecting, of course, but it could provide you with
more robust demographic data than is collected by the talk list system.
I'll be interested to hear about your research at SOTM!
On May 11,
Hey folks-- just a reminder to add your names to the room share list in the
wiki if you're looking for one. Room reservations need to be made pretty
much immediately because of WWDC coming into town right on our heels. Also,
the special SOTM-US rate is only in effect until *this Friday,* after
Hi Derick!
I'm so glad you reached out! I actually did the same thing recently when I
was in Europe-- I met up with mappers in Paris, Amsterdam, and Belgium.
I'd suggest you reach out to this OSM NYC meetup group:
http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc/
Many of them are on this list however, so they
Out of curiosity, is asking someone to leave the project something that we
have done before? I'm wondering what kind of precedents we've set for
ourself. I am only vaguely familiar with the circumstances around this user
being removed from the list, so I'm curious about the decision to ban
someone
I think a lot has to do with where it thinks you're located.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
It's nice, though I question it's accuracy: I'm not listed there. At
all. Anywhere. And I *should* be in the gold category on that at this
point. Weird.
York
Chicago
Washington, DC
Boston
San Francisco (I'm combining this with Sunnyvale, but let me know if that's
incorrect and they are really two separate entities)
Seattle
St Louis
Tampa
Portland
Cleveland
Salt Lake City
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel
this.
Steve
On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be a
lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on my list. If you
organize *or are a member of* (or just know
Excellent point-- what I had in mind was something along the lines of what
the Boston Python Workshop http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/about/ has
done-- they provide intro to Python workshops that encourage diversity
within the local python communities. They have had a lot of success
packaging
Calling all OSM Local User Group organizers--
Over the last several weeks I have reached out to many of you, but I am
certain that I missed a few. I am working on wrapping my initial findings
on the local OSM communities in the US, but I want to ensure that you're
all represented.
If we have NOT
No problem.
What would folks think of making this a semi-organized quarterly thing?
Monthly is probably too frequent, but quarterly might be the right pace.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
We should definitely have 1 - 2 months lead time next time around. I
Awesome! So glad you'll be joining us!
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Sax-Barnett, Melelani
barne...@trimet.orgwrote:
I just wanted to spread the word that Portland will be having its own
meetup for Saturday's OSM Edit-a-thon too. Sorry for the late notice-- we
had some trouble finding a
Hi Steve,
Sorry we didn't get word out to you earlier-- we've put this together
somewhat rapidly, and I'm still in the process of organizing all of the
local user group community research I'm working on. Reaching out to you is
on my list! :)
I don't see any reason that your event on the 27th
!
Martijn
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Everyone--
I'm really excited to work more with the local OSM groups in the coming
weeks and months. My first plan is to do research on what communities are
already out there and figure out
Hi Greg,
That's an interesting point. What alternatives would you suggest for
virtual meetings?
KD
On Dec 18, 2012 8:56 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
Or if you'd like to join, and Google+ is a problem, please drop me a
line.
I object to the use of google anything. That requires
Hey Everyone--
I'm really excited to work more with the local OSM groups in the coming
weeks and months. My first plan is to do research on what communities are
already out there and figure out how OSM-US can be supporting each of you.
I'm also really interested in how the different local groups
I'd be interested in helping with this. What I lack in OSM prowess I like
to think I make up in online and offline community organization skills.
On Dec 10, 2012 6:39 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote:
Noticing how many of these user groups host sites outside of OSM, is there
any update on
*Some of these resources may require a
little effort on your part, and they may not all be as well advertised
**or interconnected as they should be,* but you have to realize that
OpenStreetMap is eternally a work in progress, run entirely by
volunteers who are working really hard to keep up
I'm working on planning an event with the Parisian OSM gang, since I'll be
there on vacation, although I anticipate that just being a local OSM
meetup, rather than an outreach event.
Mostly because I don't speak French.
(Meeting with the Dutch and Belgian, and maybe even the English mappers the
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