We had a big turnout in San Francisco, with about 40 people showing up over the course of the day. We think we had a peak of about 30 people all at the same time in the early afternoon, around 2-3pm. By the end of the day the numbers dwindled to about a dozen.
Big thanks to Telenav for buying pizzas for the contributors who stayed until dinner time! I wrote up a post (including pictures) on the Stamen blog here: http://content.stamen.com/openstreetmap_spring_editathon Alan On Apr 29, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Steven Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll amplify Alex' comment about our DC editathon by adding that two of our > participants were a father-son team mapping their neighborhood. Let's do more > to encourage parents to bring their kids and get youthful mappers in the > pipeline. Get 'em started young and make lifelong mappers out of 'em. > > -- SEJ > -- twitter: @geomantic > -- skype: sejohnson8 > > There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from > incomplete data. > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation here > with steven johnson about going more directly after student participants. > Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely helps branding > the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely have about 10 > pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before. > > > On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered that > eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend. I ultimately went > to Wild Nights and I'm doing laundry now. I believe we also had a couple big > renfaires and a maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's > another big renfaire weekend. Aah, the perils of trying to organize an > editathon in a part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream! > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in the US. > > Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend? > > Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us > tomorrow: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014 > > Learn all about #editathon's here: > http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/ > > Alex > > -- > Alex Barth > Secretary > OpenStreetMap United States Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > -- > Alex Barth > Secretary > OpenStreetMap United States Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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