[Talk-us] Bay Area Mailing List created

2008-11-25 Thread Sarah Manley
Dear All, I recently created a Bay Area Talk list. Please join if you are interested in OpenStreetMap events in the Bay Area ( or if you are fond of mapping here) http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-bayarea (you can find other lists here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo)

Re: [Talk-us] Bay Area Mailing List created

2008-11-25 Thread Scott Atwood
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 09:18 -0800, Sarah Manley wrote: I am working to build the OSM community in the Bay Area, so please feel free to contact me with ideas for events/speaking engagements/ collaborations. This list

Re: [Talk-us] Bay Area Mailing List created

2008-11-25 Thread Russ Nelson
Scott Atwood writes: Actually, I've been hesitant to speak up on Talk-us about strictly local issues, because I didn't want to fill others mailboxes with noise that they don't particularly care about. I rather like the idea of having a separate list, so we can talk about local issues

Re: [Talk-us] Bay Area Mailing List created

2008-11-25 Thread Sarah Manley
I am glad to hear this feedback. I started the Bay Area mailing list because I am working to increase participation in the Bay Area by coordinating mapping parties/speaking engagements, and encouraging others here to do the same. I thought it would be helpful to have a separate list for

Re: [Talk-us] Bay Area Mailing List created

2008-11-25 Thread Russ Nelson
Sarah Manley writes: share them with Talk-us. But I thought it would be helpful to have a localized list that doesn't crowd talk-us with city specific details. I appreciate that you're trying to be polite, but in my experience, it's better to wait until people start to complain about the