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On 24/10/2010 09:40, Nic Roets wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Julio
Costa Zambelli <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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contributors, core developers, authors, etc. are still in
Germany, the<br>
UK and other countries of Western Europe, <br>
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As an outsider to the bidding and selection process, I think
that hosting it in the US will be good for OSM. If a company
wants to announce a new technology, they almost always do it
in the US for various reasons e.g. the story gets picked up by
international TV channels, the vast numbers of foreign born US
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Is that why Dell launched it's Streak mobile 'phone in the UK first?<br>
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<div>. Also consider the fact that the Cloudmade and MapQuest
ambassador programs </div>
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What's an 'ambassador' program?<br>
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Cheers<br>
Dave F.<br>
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