+1 for using meetup. You'll get a lot of visibility from it for free. Here in DC we boosted our node.js meetup attendance by factor 2 just by switching from a custom site + twitter to meetup + twitter. That was a bit over a year ago.
Also just tweeted you: https://twitter.com/OpenStreetMapUS/status/335110113843101696 On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > Awesome, well done Rick :-) > > Steve > > > On May 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Rick Marshall <rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com> > wrote: > > Fellow OSMers, > > We have finally created our own MeetUp Page for OSM St Louis. It is > located at: > http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-St-Louis-Mid-America-Mappers/ > > We are planning our next meeting to be held Wednesday, May 29 from > 6:00-8:00pm at the O'Fallon Family Sports Park in O'Fallon, Illinois. > > We will plan to map the features of the O'Fallon Family Sports Park > located at: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.59723&lon=-89.93144&zoom=16&layers=M. > Meeting > will start at 6. Light refreshments (chips and sodas) will be provided. If > you want more than light refreshments feel welcome to bring your own food. > We will MeetUp as a group at the Gazebo next to the water park in the > center of the Family Sports Park. The meeting will start with a short > overview of OpenStreetMap, group members will be given handouts to help > with the mapping process, and then we will focus on adding geometry and > attribute features to the OSM map of the O'Fallon Sports Park. The walking > trails are mapped, but the baseball and soccer fields, water park, > concession stands, and interior sidewalks are not. We will plan on > regrouping again at 7:30 to discuss our effort and view the new map. If you > have a GPS bring it, but it is not needed or required to have a GPS to > attend the MeetUp. > > Hope to see you there! > > I am not sure how/where to add this to the OSM wiki pages. Can someone > point me to where this announcement belongs? > > Thanks for everything. > Rick Marshall > > Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP > President > Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo) > 130 Sawgrass Ln > O'Fallon, IL 62269 > (618) 670-4259 > rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com > http://www.verticalgeo.com > http://www.culturescapes.net > Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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