<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thea Clay <<a href="mailto:thea@cloudmade.com">thea@cloudmade.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> If I remember correctly we have donated servers re Ian and SteveC has the<br>
>> domain <a href="http://openstreetmap.us" target="_blank">openstreetmap.us</a> (<br>
>> <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-us@openstreetmap.org/msg02623.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-us@openstreetmap.org/msg02623.html</a>). That<br>
>> way we can serve the needs of current members but also have an engaging<br>
>> centralized place were newbies can go to find resources, connect with other<br>
>> mappers in their area or, if there are no other mappers nearby, start the<br>
>> local community themselves.<br>
>><br>
>> I think all we are missing are people to help design and populate the<br>
>> site. Is anyone interested in teaming up to get this done?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Steve pointed the domain to the servers a few weeks ago and Apache is<br>
> sitting ready to go. If anyone has any ideas we can get something going<br>
> fairly quickly. I'd be happy to help on the technical side if someone is<br>
> willing to work on the design/content side.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Any objection to Canadian use, or must every community reinvent this wheel?<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>If you don't mind sitting on the <a href="http://openstreetmap.us">openstreetmap.us</a> domain :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that if we were to come up with something to drive the community it would be useful-to and used-by other groups (including Canada).</div>