<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Mark<br><br></div>No need to very bored in Redditch. There's a shedload of mapping to do in Redditch. What are you currently mapping? We may be able to give some remote assistance with armchair mapping and/or problem solving. Have you tried using photos with Mapillary? It's great for capturing lots of detail<br><br></div>Regards<br><br></div>Brian<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 May 2016 at 17:43, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.croft.lug@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.croft.lug@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i did not know it was common for OSS/linux/opensource/etc style<br>
projects to charge there volunteers to attend , wish i was rich<br>
computer programmer with lots of free time to kill at these events but<br>
i am not , i am the complete opposition being disabled and unable to<br>
find any neche in the computer world anymore , i found work very hard<br>
when i was a computer programmer starting out and was only in work for<br>
4 years and the company had a restructing. I lost my job and never<br>
found another one been unemployed for 22 years now. I do not have a<br>
degree and did try to get a computer programming degree but cos i was<br>
too bad customer for the banks i could not pay for student halls (i<br>
never paid for accomodation in the end at univeristy of humberside n<br>
licoln at the hull campus) it was a nightmare. I did get a little bit<br>
of support from disabled student suppport services got diagnose with<br>
dyselixa and got a special stamp that i used on my assignments which<br>
really meant that the lectureers just gave me a pass mark on most of<br>
them some of thut programming stuff i was getting merits on. I found<br>
the degree pretty lame really and a lot of very dishearted lectureers<br>
that where being overworked and stretched across a number of different<br>
campuses.<br>
The maths lecture just told me to copy somebody elses work cos he did<br>
not have time to explain it too me.<br>
<br>
so in the end i never went back after the first year and a few grand<br>
in debt to the student loan company i guess they will never get it<br>
back.<br>
<br>
very bored mark in redditch<br>
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On 3 May 2016 at 18:08, Martín Ferrari <<a href="mailto:tincho@tincho.org">tincho@tincho.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 02/05/16 21:56, Rob Nickerson wrote:<br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> Tickets for State of the Map 2016 are now on sale. Get yours before the<br>
>> price goes up (to EUR 100)!<br>
><br>
> Sadly, this cost is too high to justify attending. I care about OSM, and<br>
> I have been a silent contributor for years, but spending on plane<br>
> tickets, acommodation, and on top of that 75-100 EUR to attend the<br>
> conference, is just too much money for this little hobby of mine.<br>
><br>
> I think it is a sad state when most libre projects I care about charge<br>
> its own volunteers to gather and improve the community, specially when<br>
> corporate sponsors could be offsetting this cost. OSM is far from the<br>
> only one, I am just writing this because I am getting increasingly<br>
> annoyed by the situation.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Martín Ferrari (Tincho)<br>
><br>
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