<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hi all, </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Let me give you an update on the upcoming 10th anniversary weekend - which is next week!</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">A quick look at the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Summer_Mapathon_2014"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">wiki</span></a> reveals that we already have <b>a dozen cities hosting an event</b>, and 3 more maybes. This is an amazing number! A big thank you to everyone who stepped up to organize an event! If you’re still debating organizing something - just do it! Pick a place and a time, add your event to the wiki and tweet / email / flyer / facebook about it!</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Here’s the current list of confirmed cities:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><ul><li>Washington, DC</li><li>Denver, CO</li><li>Seattle, WA</li><li>Athens, GA</li><li>New York City, NY</li><li>Los Angeles, CA</li><li>Phoenix, AZ</li><li>Lexington, KY</li><li>St. Petersburg, FL</li><li>Nashua, NC</li><li>Cleveland, OH</li><li>Various US Cities (Virtual)</li></ul><div>For those of you who are close to Canada, there’s also events confirmed for Montréal and Toronto.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I’ve also edited the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_10th_Anniversary_Birthday_party#United_States"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">10th anniversary</span></a> and <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapathon/US_Summer_Mapathon_2014"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Summer Mapathon</span></a> pages a bit. There was information on U.S. events on both pages. I thought it would be clearer to have everything in one place, so I de-duplicated entries and moved everything to the Mapathon page, with a link pointing there from the 10th anniversary page. <b>Event organizers</b> —> I hope I did justice to all your original entries, <b>please double check</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to a fantastic 10th anniversary!</div><div class="bloop_sign" id="bloop_sign_1406842509686020864"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br><div style="line-height: normal;">Martijn van Exel<br></div><div style="line-height: normal;">President</div><div style="line-height: normal;">OpenStreetMap US Chapter</div></div></div></body></html>