<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We (the Maptime organizers) are also planning a Maptime summit/conference that will happen in conjunction with State of the Map US, so we hope that will also bring a lot of individuals (especially new mappers) who might not otherwise attend a State of the Map.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 4, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" class="">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank" class="">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2/4/2015 2:43 PM, Alex Barth wrote:<br class="">
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Yup, that cutoff number is going to be somewhere beyond 1,000 - and we are fully planning to sell out the conference :)<br class="">
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Any idea what portion will be mappers and what will be companies or other organizations? The feedback I've gotten is that the US conferences have been increasingly focused on industry and data consumers, not the community.</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul, we also received that feedback and are working hard to encourage *everyone* interested in OSM and mapping to attend.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the ways we were planning on attracting more of the community was to have a very strong scholarship program to help cover travel costs. You can apply for that program here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://stateofthemap.us/scholarships/" class="">http://stateofthemap.us/scholarships/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'd love to hear thoughts on how we could reach out to and attract more of the community. Who should we talk to? What kind of communication are they most likely to listen to?</div></div></div></div>
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