On 10/14/2015 5:30 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
- in each state, have a state mailinglist, limited to people who actively map in the state, because they live there, or because they drive there to work. Explicitly discourage non-locals from joining. These lists would have more of a "people you might meet for a geobeer session someday" flavor, rather than people you've never met and won't.
We've got Puget Sound (northwest Washington State) and New York State lists. I wouldn't say either has been that much of a success. talk-us-pugetsound has had 4 messages in the last year, all announcements, and the region has a reasonably active OSM community for the US. talk-us-newyork has similar numbers, though I'm not sure how active the OSM community is there, as opposed to the geo- community.
The problem is that if you make a discussion group too small, it doesn't have enough activity to sustain interest in it.
Larger regions might work, but even a statewide group abandons the might meet for a geobeer idea where it takes 6 hours to drive across the state.
Unfortunately, I don't have any great ideas. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
