Hi Joost, I'm willing to help and I propose to organize a local mapathon section in Arlon (ULg campus) ONLY IF there is sufficient volunteers for other cities. Otherwise, I can go to Namur like last year.
I have to talk with some colleagues here in Arlon to see what's possible (not a lot of students in the 2nd quadrimester). I let you know, Julien Minet On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:40 AM, joost schouppe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Last year, the Interuniversity National Mapathon was a great success: > about 200 people in seven universities participated, and we got in the 7 pm > news issue of both VRT and VTM. > OSM-Be volunteers supported all seven events. > > The next national mapathon is being planned right now, and they want our > help again! > > We will need volunteers at ULB (Brussels), VUB (Brussels), UCL > (Louvain-la-Neuve), KUL (Leuven), Ugent, ULG (Liege), UNamur. Four more > cities might still join in the following days. > > Previous experience with humanitarian mapping, iD and the Tasking Manager > is of course welcome, but we will give you some training too. Last year, it > wasn't easy finding volunteers for all places, but it is important that > there is an experienced mapper at all of these places. > > Basically we need you for any or all of these tasks: > - give an introduction about (humanitarian) OSM, a short training > - just being around and helping people with questions > - validating (even from home) during the event, so we can correct newbie > mappers before they make the same mistake a thousand times > > Just send me a mail with your preferred tasks and city (or cities) and > we'll be in touch. > > -- > Joost Schouppe > OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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