I like the way Jim has broken out the components of US OSM pages. Some of these are probably better as wiki pages, others as more static pages. But having it in 'bite sized chunks' makes it easier to divide the work and manage the tasks.<br>
<br clear="all">SEJ<br>----<br>"Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans." -Empedocles<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 17:43, Jim McAndrew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@loc8.us">jim@loc8.us</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;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ian Dees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" target="_blank">ian.dees@gmail.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;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jim McAndrew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@loc8.us" target="_blank">jim@loc8.us</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div><br></div><div>What are the goals for the <a href="http://openstreetmap.us" target="_blank">openstreetmap.us</a> web page?</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>That's a good question that we should probably all discuss.</div><div><br></div><div>My opinion is that it should be a one-stop-shop for growing the US OSM community. Not entirely sure what that entails, but I imagine it starts with:</div>
<div>- a calendar</div><div>- pages for specific communities both new and established (the DC and Bay Area folks come to mind)</div><div>- resources for getting involved (for someone that maybe doesn't want to commit to a mapping party yet but still wants to be involved?)</div>
<div>- ...I ran out of ideas</div><div><br></div><div>Any others?</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div>I like the ideas that Richard Weait has of integrating it with more social networking tools. I'm not entirely sure how that would be done without being too obtrusive.</div>
<div><br></div><div>People coming to the <a href="http://openstreetmap.us" target="_blank">openstreetmap.us</a> website are going to be interested in:</div><div><ul><li>Events</li><ul><li>Mapping parties</li><li>Meetups</li>
<li>Talks</li>
</ul><li>How people can help</li><ul><li>Holding Mapping Parties</li><li>Doing Personal Mapping</li><li>Ideas</li></ul><li>Funding OpenStreetMap.us</li><ul><li>at least it should be easy for them to do so</li></ul><li>Learning more about the organization</li>
<li>How to get a hold of people</li><li>Equipment needed to map</li><ul><li>walking papers</li><li>GPSes</li></ul></ul><div>There's really a lot that can go into it. The wiki format would make it easy for the community to add these things as people wish to see them, but isn't as attractive to people that aren't used to technical webpages. </div>
<div><br></div><div>-</div><div>Jim McAndrew</div><div><br></div><br></div></div><br>
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