Ha, awesome. Great way to make the event more inclusive for folks who don't want to spend their weekend day away from family. Someone at SOTM-EU gave me the same idea. Why not do Aug 9 on OSM's birthday? At OSM US we were planning on calling the next editathon on Aug 9.
Alex On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Steven Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not too early to start thinking about this summer's (July?) editathon > and I'd like to propose we turn this one be a family/youth-oriented event > and give it a theme: OpenStreetMap Summer Camp. The idea is simply to > conduct the editathons much like we have in the past, but make a concerted > effort to get parents to bring their kids or get kids to come on their own > to get more middle- and high-school kids started with OpenStreetMap. > > I'm willing to serve as a mentor/organizer for a DC-based event, but it > would be great if we could maximize the impact by getting this going > nationwide. The basic format of the editathon would stay the same, but it > might require a little extra legwork locally to reach our target audience. > I haven't worked through those details yet, but want to put it out to the > community for discussion. > > -- SEJ > -- twitter: @geomantic > -- skype: sejohnson8 > > There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate > from incomplete data. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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