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T</span></font><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here
will be a meeting tomorrow (September 30, 2010) about the GeoBus
project at 8:00pm Eastern Time. This meeting will focus on some of the
GeoBus initiatives. I don’t want to get caught up talking about
funding, what to do with the funding, and the possibility of buy a bus.
The focus of this meeting will be to come up with what will define the
GeoBus.</span></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br>
<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>GeoBus Call-In</b>:</span><br></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">September 30, 2010 8:00pm Eastern Time</span></font><br class="kix-line-break">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 218-486-3891 x663610833 </span></font><br>
</div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>My ideas for the GeoBus</b></span></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><br>
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T</span></font><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he
idea of the GeoBus is a group of people who get people together and
map. It will help build communities and promote mapping to special
interests groups. It will be clearly defined and simple enough that
other people can easily pick it up. It will focus on rural areas,
parkland, and special interests (such as hiking, biking, fishing, and
skiing). There may be a physical geobus in the future, and this will
help get the media attention the geobus wants. There is no need to have
a bus in order for GeoBus to be successful, instead, the physical bus
should be a sign of the the GeoBus’ success. While the GeoBus can be a
single bus going across the country, the GeoBus can be a lot chain of
events to promote mapping to the masses.</span></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br>
<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Triangle Mapping Party</b>:</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
The Triangle mapping party is this weekend. We are going to use this
party as a study of what the GeoBus can do. This mapping party will
include some special interest mapping (such as biking) and we will use
the people who are mapping in this as a case study for what the GeoBus
needs to do to promote mapping to these groups.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please
reply to this with your ideas for the discussion, and if you are
available Thursday night, please sit in the meeting and discuss where
you believe the GeoBus should be going.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">--</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jim McAndrew<br><a href="mailto:jim@loc8.us">jim@loc8.us</a><br>
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