That is a great post. I will just link to that on openstreetmap.us instead of writing another one!
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > It is great to see some good PR happening before the event kicks off! > > I just put up a blog post about a few things I have done to try and > help out before the fact. [1] > > I mention this at the end of the post and it is listed on the wiki > page but please do be aware that there is an IRC channel dedicated to > this event and it would be nice to have some people who are familiar > with TIGER data in there whenever possible to answer questions in real > time. I pinged TomH about this but didn't get a response yet... do > people think it would be a good idea to have the #opc2012 channel > listed on http://irc.osm.org for the weekend? That way the link on the > wiki page could point at the web client instead of counting on users > to have a desktop IRC client installed and knowing how to use it. If > so, I'll try to get Tom's attention again. > > [1] http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2012/11/preparing-for-operation-cowboy.html > > Toby > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Matthias Meißer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> the organisation of "Operation Cowboy" seems to be nearly finished. >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy >> >> I guess we have enough target areas and thanks to Martjins Map Roulett >> enough ideas on how to find new tasks :) Thanks fly out to everybody who >> starts a mapping "cake"! >> >> Thanks to Charlotte (Techlady) we had some *press releases* and it seemed to >> worked: >> http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/11/20/article/OpenStreetMap-second-annual-map-a-thon-on-this-weekend/RNXTDSVBSV.html >> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-launches-Operation-Cowboy-1751382.html >> >> But if you like, you can try to still push the event, as it might be a good >> idea to bring attention of US IT media to the quality assurance topic and >> that we still looking for more mappers becausethere is still a lot of work >> to do in America. Sadly slashdot and raddit didn't work for me here :/ >> >> Another good thing would be *social media* so spreading to word to attract >> our global community (and others of course): >> - https://twitter.com/opcowboy and #OPC2012 >> - Starting a facebook or google+ account anyone? >> - Maintaining the IRC channel? Setup a bot? >> >> Might be interesting, that this party, we __might__ get a nice animation by >> Derick Rethans. But hey, let's first do the job and enjoy the results >> afterwards ;) >> >> bye, >> Matthias >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
