I've tried to do that, Tulsa County referred me to Creek County...Creek County doesn't return my calls and they never seem to be open (do we still have a library??). I think Thanksgiving is a big factor, and I would expect the lack of visibility among tribal citizens being a contributor (my tribe doesn't consider this week to have holidays, for example; not sure about others).<br>
<br>On Wednesday, November 21, 2012, Jim McAndrew wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Paul,<div><br></div><div>Martijn had suggested contacting the local library and seeing if you can reserve a study room or something like that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you can't pull something together this weekend (it's not really a good weekend for get togethers in the US), I would love to attend a mapping party in OK in the future. So planning a mapping party in the future could also be a good idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Jim</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'baloo@ursamundi.org');" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't think the Tulsa one is going to happen, lack of venue.<div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Matthias Meißer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'digi_c@arcor.de');" target="_blank">digi_c@arcor.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
the organisation of "Operation Cowboy" seems to be nearly finished.<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<u></u>wiki/Operation_Cowboy</a><br>
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I guess we have enough target areas and thanks to Martjins Map Roulett enough ideas on how to find new tasks :) Thanks fly out to everybody who starts a mapping "cake"!<br>
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Thanks to Charlotte (Techlady) we had some *press releases* and it seemed to worked:<br>
<a href="http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/11/20/article/OpenStreetMap-second-annual-map-a-thon-on-this-weekend/RNXTDSVBSV.html" target="_blank">http://www.spatialsource.com.<u></u>au/2012/11/20/article/<u></u>OpenStreetMap-second-annual-<u></u>map-a-thon-on-this-weekend/<u></u>RNXTDSVBSV.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-launches-Operation-Cowboy-1751382.html" target="_blank">http://www.h-online.com/open/<u></u>news/item/OpenStreetMap-<u></u>launches-Operation-Cowboy-<u></u>1751382.html</a><br>
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But if you like, you can try to still push the event, as it might be a good idea to bring attention of US IT media to the quality assurance topic and that we still looking for more mappers becausethere is still a lot of work to do in America. Sadly slashdot and raddit didn't work for me here :/<br>
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Another good thing would be *social media* so spreading to word to attract our global community (and others of course):<br>
- <a href="https://twitter.com/opcowboy" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/opcowboy</a> and #OPC2012<br>
- Starting a facebook or google+ account anyone?<br>
- Maintaining the IRC channel? Setup a bot?<br>
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Might be interesting, that this party, we __might__ get a nice animation by Derick Rethans. But hey, let's first do the job and enjoy the results afterwards ;)<br>
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bye,<br>
Matthias<br>
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