On Jan 22, 2014 11:10 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
The publicity aspect of Meetup really gets people to your events. Though i wonder if these people are the long term contributors to OSM that we
I agree with Alex and Paul here. It would be ideal to say Oh we can
replicate the functionality of a user calendar- that's absolutely
true. The discovery functionality is what's not replicatable.
I've had one user here in NYC who does not wish to participate on the
meetup because he doesn't want
On Jan 22, 2014 12:09 AM, Brian DeRocher br...@derocher.org wrote:
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The publicity aspect of Meetup really gets people to your events. Though i
wonder if these people are the long term contributors to OSM that we want.
You control that in part with the way that you write your event
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
The publicity aspect of Meetup really gets people to your events.
Though i wonder if these people are the long term contributors to OSM that
we want.
It is in part a numbers game. Only a small percentage will become
I dislike relying on volatile third party services as much as the next
person, but:
* As stated before, it does get you unparalleled exposure outside of
the regular channels, targeted at people actively looking to explore
new interests / meet new people. Sure, many of these folks may just be
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:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, but I gave a talk on this very subject at SOTM US
2013, which you can watch here:
http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68098498
Among my key points
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
The reply I received back from Laura Blackett, Meetup.com, is show below.
They do not offer any corporate sponsored group rates nor can third parties
pay for accounts. If OSM-US
Here's an idea. How about we get back to using Upcoming.org? Oh yeah, it was
bought by Yahoo and shutdown. It's for this reason OSM runs their own web
servers, wikis, mail servers. I'm generally in support of running our own
calendar server.
But as Paul said, being a calendar is only half
On 1/15/14 6:03 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
What's wrong with using Google+'s events functionality? Almost everyone
with an Android and everyone with hosting through Google, is on YouTube or
a gmail account has this.
there are a lot of people in OSM who are uncomfortable with having
their
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To: Clifford Snow
Cc: Martijn van Exel; OpenStreetMap talk-us list
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups
What's wrong with using Google+'s events functionality? Almost everyone with
an Android and everyone with hosting through Google, is on YouTube or a gmail
account has this.
On Jan 14
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Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups
Why can't you use Meetup for existing groups and also use Facebook as a
mechanism organize members for new groups and associated events?
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:
However the cost is expensive for individuals to start a Meetup group.
I recommend either crowd funding a meetup group or getting a local company
to sponsor. Like Ian said, at OSM US we've spent quite some cycles on
Despite the cost overhead of Meetup, it is definitely worth investigating.
Our local Python group started using meetup last year and it gave us a huge
boost in exposure and has brought in quite a few new people who didn't know
that we existed. To me, the exposure to the (literally) thousands of
Just a couple of observations from the other side of the Atlantic:
- please make it easy to contact your group without having to go through a sign
up procedure with yet another service. Not everybody is interested in joining
permamently and making a meetup account mandatory just means you wont
Sure! It's commonly used on the Furry Fandom community (particularly on
the plains) to coordinate furmeets and share convention experiences. It
ties in nicely to Google Calendar as well, and ergo, Android.
https://plus.google.com/communities/113331563119234748188/events has
examples from that
A corporation might offer a grant for that to OSM US if it wanted to
manage that (especially if tax deductible), but it would be
challenging to offer it to a number of smaller groups.
-Randy
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
What's wrong with using Google+'s events functionality? Almost everyone
with an Android and everyone with hosting through Google, is on YouTube or
a gmail account has this.
Paul,
I've never even heard of Google+ events
Simon's comment makes me realize that the central argument for
meetup.comhasn't been mentioned.
meetup.com covers the bases for core organizing (events + mailing lists)
but most importantly, it provides incredible visibility. Esp. in the US,
people actively browse meetup for stuff they're
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