<div dir="ltr">As far as DC, I think it would depend on how many people are interested in attending. Let's continue the local discussion on the MappingDC list. <div><br></div><div style>I love the idea of non-coding tasks, since we aren't all developers, but many of us still really want to help. I think it would be great if people who are involved in projects could respond to this thread (or just create another one) with some ideas for sprint tasks for both devs and non-devs. This would be a great opportunity to solicit testing, or get help writing documentation, for example, as well as the more obvious development tasks. I think what will help is if people can make clear asks before the event so that when the Birthday Sprint comes we can hit the ground running. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I've spoken with a few of you about this, but I'll follow up off list for some projects/tasks that I think could benefit from a little Birthday Sprint love. Don't wait to be invited, though-- if you'd like to work on your project and maybe organize your community around it, go for it! Feel free to use this thread to propose an idea, or create another thread if you want to have some more discussion around it.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Cheers!</div><div style>Kathleen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Mikel Maron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mikel_maron@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><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>
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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="font-style:normal;font-size:16.363636016845703px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16.363636016845703px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">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>
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-Mikel</div><div></div><div> </div></font></span><div><div class="im">* Mikel Maron * <a href="tel:%2B14152835207" value="+14152835207" target="_blank">+14152835207</a> @mikel
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<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"><div class="im"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Kathleen Danielson <<a href="mailto:kathleen.danielson@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathleen.danielson@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> OpenStreetMap US Talk <<a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>> <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> <div><br><div><div class="h5"><div><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>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" href="http://osm.org/" target="_blank">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><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><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><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kathleen</span></div>
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