Whoa, are you sure you guys want to go to Birmingham? ;-) But kidding aside, if we do actually manage to raise say, a couple of thousand dollars locally for mapping, wouldn't that money be better spent buying mapping equipment for use here, rather than sending someone to Birmingham? I'm thinking, off the top of my head:
- Some sort of aerial photo rig for mapping provincial areas. Remote control plane, balloon etc. - Buying imagery from imagery suppliers. Perhaps they'd entertain a discount for non-profits. - Buying GIS data from the people hoarding it here. - Lobbying government departments to help. - More GPStoGo pool units. And if that sort of approach catches on, then maybe we could use <http://www.kickstarter.com/> to crowdsource the funding. For example. Jim maning sambale wrote, On Monday, 18 February, 2013 11:08 AM: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hopefully then can provide scholarships so that people without the means to >> attend can come. :-) > > Just an idea, why not do our own fundraising to send 2-3 Pinoy OSMers > to Birmingham? I was able to attend SOTM in Denver and would like > other people to experience it as well. > Raising funds for this may be difficult to pull off, but, will never > know unless we try? :) > > I'll ask around for possibilities. Ideas welcome. > > -- datalude: information security e: j...@datalude.com Philippines: +63 2 403 1311 / mob: +63 917 849 3939 Hong Kong: +852 5125 3392 w: http://www.datalude.com/ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
