<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Great, good to hear.<div><br></div><div>I'm worried I said something the wrong way that made you guys feel defensive. Wasn't my intention if so. This is your baby, I just ran the first mapping party and we ran tons of them at CloudMade so I have opinions but I'm not trying to tell you what to do.<br><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:37 AM, the Old Topo Depot <<a href="mailto:oldtopos@novacell.com">oldtopos@novacell.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">We already did/do that :<div><br></div><div>1. Sunnyvale and SF Edit-a-thons used a Google Hangout so that I could give a remote bootstrap to SF as they did not have a local leader. Seemed to work</div><div>2. BiWeekly Mappy Hours are held, also via Hangout and are well attended and also seem to work</div>
<div><br></div><div>Google hangout is challenged wrt to scalability; it'd be good to have more video participants.</div><div><br></div><div>Local F2F is surely better; but remotes can be effective to spinup remote/detached folks who then act as seeds/centers around which locals can form. Let's stay open to all the possibilities. A little encouragement and interaction seems to go a long way, even if beers are NOT involved ;-)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Kathleen Danielson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathleen.danielson@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathleen.danielson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Re: Map -- All in good time. (Gotta write up my blog post first...)<div><br></div><div>Re: Remote meetup deployment: I love that idea and think it would be an awesome goal 6 months from now. I'd love to have built up a local OSM user group organizer toolkit by then, so that we can give them some tried and tested resources to keep things going. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Re: Sponsors-- might be something that corporate OSM users would like to sponsor...</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Steve Coast <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com" target="_blank">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Stupid suggestion - plot these on a map.<div><br></div><div>Would be interesting to see which high-populaion areas *don't* have a meet up and then see if we can organize something remotely and then some of us fly in for a weekend, if inclined, to kick things off.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Costs would be $200 for SWA flights plus $200 for hotels or something. I suspect we could find that kind of money somewhere to sponsor someone to do this.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Steve</div></font></span><div><br><div><div><div>On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Kathleen Danielson <<a href="mailto:kathleen.danielson@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathleen.danielson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be a lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on my list. If you organize *or are a member of* (or just know of) a local user group from somewhere other than the areas listed below, please let me know ASAP! <div>
<br></div><div>New York</div><div>Chicago</div><div>Washington, DC</div><div>Boston</div><div>San Francisco (I'm combining this with Sunnyvale, but let me know if that's incorrect and they are really two separate entities)</div>
<div>Seattle</div><div>St Louis</div><div>Tampa</div><div>Portland</div><div>Cleveland</div><div>Salt Lake City</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Kathleen Danielson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathleen.danielson@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathleen.danielson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Calling all OSM Local User Group organizers--<div><br></div><div>Over the last several weeks I have reached out to many of you, but I am certain that I missed a few. I am working on wrapping my initial findings on the local OSM communities in the US, but I want to ensure that you're all represented.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If we have NOT directly connected about your local OSM group, please shoot me a quick note to let me know that and I'll have some follow up questions for you after that. Nothing taxing or time-consuming, I swear!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><span><font color="#888888">Kathleen</font></span></div>
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