On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a super fun OSM meetup in Denver last night with about 20 people > there. It was the second one (they're monthly now), hosted upstairs in a bar > that did good food. > > Picture: http://opengeodata.org/osm-denver-second-meetup > > There are various plans to start running mapping parties and other events > We need to make our zoo here in Denver as well mapped as DC or Berlin :-). > It's a format that's working pretty well in places like the UK and Germany - > regular meetings to chat OSM. > > I think there are fairly regular meetups in SF? And in DC there is a geo > meetup with an OSM slant (correct me if I'm wrong). > > Is there anyone here from other major metros like Chicago? Seattle? LA? > Boston? NY? Do you want some help getting a meetup started? It feels like > the community is mature enough here in the US to begin regular meetups in > most cities, publicize them on things like meetup.com and get a community > going. Each will have it's own goals per city of course. > > Thoughts? > > I'm here in Minneapolis and have done a couple mapping parties (with 7 or 8 people) where mapping actually happened. I think get-togethers/meetups would be a good next step. I'm not very social and don't enjoy the "bar-scene" very much. Have any tips for pulling something like this together?
Also, since I'm a nerd: would it be helpful to have a list/calendar/map mashup of active meetups on the osm.us page somewhere?
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