[HOT] [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

[Mikel Maron]

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.

For DC, where could we host it? American Red Cross may or may not be available. OpenGovHub is a little complicated on the weekends.

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.

-Mikel
 
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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> From: Kathleen Danielson <kathleen.danielson at gmail.com>
>To: OpenStreetMap US Talk <talk-us at openstreetmap.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:31 PM
>Subject: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!
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>Hi Everyone,
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>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. 
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>So, I propose that on the weekend of August 10-11 we hold a remote Birthday Sprint on any and all OSM projects. 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 osm.org 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.
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>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!
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>Cheers,
>Kathleen
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