Guess I'll go ahead and toss out the first ideas on this one too. I'll let someone else write the wiki this time around, but here's my list of potential spending priorities:<br><br>1 - Legal / Licensing (especially data acquisition @ the state and county government level)<br>
2 - Mapping Party support (getting equipment checkout set up)<br>3 - User Education & Outreach - (getting local hiking/biking/geocaching clubs involved)<br>4 - Media outreach (Newspapers & TV stations love to have "human interest" stories like this in reserve for slow news days. Take a look at the <a href="http://geocaching.com" target="_blank">geocaching.com</a> weekly newsletter - they have a canned article that gets printed in one form or another several times a week.)<br>
5 - Software development<br><br>OK, time to retreat to the bunker and watch the fireworks start,<br>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:58 AM, SteveC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com" target="_blank">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">One of the things we did in the beginning of OSMF is say, roughly, what the budget would be spent on. Therefore, if you prioritized the list of goals and assigned rough budget %'s to them you avoid a lot of problems over what to focus time, money and effort on 1, 2 or 5 years down the line. Doesn't mean they need to be set in stone, but right now everyone might have different ideas over what the most important bits are.<br>
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Yours &c.<br>
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Steve<br>
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On Dec 14, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Sarah Manley wrote:<br>
> All,<br>
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> Mission statement v2 is now open for discussion: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Mission_statement" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Mission_statement</a><br>
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> Please comment here on talk-us or on the wiki. This draft will be open for a 2 week comment period (ending Dec 29).<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> Sarah<br>
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