Well.. it's chicken and egg. There wasn't anyone interested in the UK
when I ran the first mapping parties there either.
If you set up a group on meetup.com you'd be surprised how many people
join and start to get interested once you have a group meeting monthly.
We should really be aiming for one meetup per state. I think we have MA,
WA, CA, CO now all have monthly meetups. How does NY, TX and the captiol
look?
Steve
On 6/2/2011 10:14 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
From my perspective there are a couple hurdles:
0) There aren't very many people aware of or interested in OSM in the
US yet.
1) People interested in OSM who might be able to evangelize OSM
already spend their time mapping or (in my case) just don't have any
extra time outside of existing obligations, work, family life, etc.
That being said, perhaps there's something that could be done to
grease the wheels and make it as easy as possible to get a mappy
hour/mapping party going. Can those that have run successful ones
recently talk about what they did, who they contacted, what time they
held it? I'm thinking something like Harry Wood's diary posts for the
London OSM meetups, but for the meetups in the US.
Maybe seeing/reading how others do it in the US (not that it needs to
be different) would provide inspiration for the rest of us?
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Steve Coast <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Agreed. Our mapping parties and meetups in Seattle have been awesome.
On 6/2/2011 8:59 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
I see that a mapping party is planned for Boston this month.
This is
awesome, and if you are nearby, you should attend.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boston/June_2011_mapping_party
There is also a mapping party on that date in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
But why aren't there ten times as many mapping parties in the
US as
there are in Canada? The US has ten times the population. Y'all
should have more mapping parties. And Mappy Hours, to meet up
with
other mappers and talk about mapping over your beverage of choice.
It's fun. Really. You should set one up. Today.
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