<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>This is a great idea Kathleen, best way to celebrate. We want to keep up the momentum from SOTMUS, and pick up other projects too. In HOT, we're starting to organize our tech work, and this would be good timing to get some focus.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">For DC, where could we host it? American Red Cross may or may not be available. OpenGovHub is a little complicated on the weekends.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px;
font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Also, wonder if there's non-coding tasks we could pick up. There's lots of initiatives coming out of SOTMUS ... TeachOSM, Diversity Task Force. Within HOT, we have a lot of policy and communication needs.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">-Mikel</div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel
s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Kathleen Danielson <kathleen.danielson@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OpenStreetMap US Talk <talk-us@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:31 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6785377635"><div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I hope you're all enjoying your
Independence Day celebrations! I'm thinking toward another upcoming anniversary-- OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday! I know that folks are planning various celebrations in cities around the world, and I thought that it might be a good idea to plan a Birthday Sprint to continue the work from the SOTMUS Sprint Days. </div>
<div><br></div><div style="">So, I propose that on the weekend of August 10-11 we hold a remote Birthday Sprint on any and all OSM projects. <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What this means is that whoever has a project they are working on can rally their community to do a dedicated push over those two days. I'm thinking MapRoulette, new <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://osm.org/">osm.org</a> features, iD updates-- whatever. Then, we just do it! If people want to host in-person sprint day events, that's fantastic, but even though being in the same room is vastly beneficial, it's not always feasible on a project like this, so the assumption is that this will be a predominantly remote event.</span></div>
<div style=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It's been great to see all of the enthusiasm and momentum coming out of SOTMUS, so let's keep that going with the Birthday Sprint!</span></div>
<div style=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cheers,</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kathleen</span></div>
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