can i put in a good word for reading? i don't live there any more and i don't know anyone in LUGs there. but there is a university with a "cybernetics" course, so there should be plenty of geeks. these guys might be interested, and their next meeting is on dec 10th, so it might be possible to go down in advance of a mapping party to warm them up:
http://www.sclug.org.uk/ this area to the west of reading centre is all suburban houses and represents a definite target: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.455&lon=-1.0228&zoom=14&layers=000BFTF sadly there isn't any aerial imagery. travel to reading is easy, with direct train lines from london, bristol, south wales, birmingham, oxford, cornwall/devon, etc... cheers, matt On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi OSMers, > > As many of you will be award Cloudmade are generously sponsoring a monthly > mapping party at the moment and so far we have had great success in > Bradford, Manchester, Stratford-upon-Avon and Evesham. > > Now that Winter is upon us I'm struggling a little to get the level of > interest for the next three parties on the following dates: > > Dec 13/14, 2008 > Jan 24/25, 2009 > Feb 21/22, 2009 > > My provisional plans for December till now have been for a party that > weekend in Plymouth, which has a 250,000 population (similar to Bradford), > Yahoo imagery and very little mapping to date. However I'm struggling to > find people locally with availability that weekend. It's possible that the > run up to Christmas is getting in the way as well perhaps as a perceived > concern about the weather at this time of year (though last year we had good > dry weather all the way till Christmas). > > As a result I thought I would open the debate up to the list to see if we > can indeed get enough interest for Plymouth or whether others have better > suggestions, and more importantly think we can get a decent show of > participants. > > A few pointers from previous events: > > 1. Locations with an active Linux User Group are usually well supported. > It's these groups (and other computer groups) that appear to give us most > new users or who best spread the word. > 2. We normally find that attendance on Sundays is 50% that of Saturdays > 3. Participants prefer informal venues (where we can organise refreshments) > and access to wifi is definitely preferred. > 4. Being able to identify a clear target area or theme for the mapping. > Completing the target has been one of the successes of the first three > Cloudmade sponsored events. > > I'd like to hear from anyone who has good contacts locally with their local > Linux or similar group and with a logical suggestion of a mapping location. > I'll be doing most of the legwork in setting up but local knowledge about > venues and any assistance will be gratefully received. > > If anyone else is interested in Plymouth for the December event then please > also get in touch. If I see some interest from OSMer's I'll still push ahead > and get Plymouth on the map. As a fall back we can also Yahoo! trace it > first. > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
