[Party] Mapping party advice

[Nick Black]

Hi Iván,

Its great that you're organising a party in Spain - but you missing
the most important detail - the dates!  Just shout as loud as you can
about the dates and people are bound to turn up.  I would definitely
come out to Spain for a weekend, but April is already looking busy,
add to that the cost of flights, which get more expensive closer to
the time...

In short - figure out who *has* to be there to make it work, then
arrange a date the key people (people lending the units or whatever)
can make it, then set a date and tell everyone you see.

Good luck,

Nick


On 3/7/07, Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you may already know, I'm from Madrid, Spain, a place with zero mapping
> parties so far.
>
> Matter is, a cultural centre (a kind of digital arts museum) will host a 3-day
> OSM workshop over april, and I'm the person behind it.
>
> I'm being provided with GPS loggers, computers with Ubuntu and JOSM, and a
> bunch of people interested in this. One day devoted to OSM, data editing and
> JOSM, and two days devoted to a mapping party. Prints of the Madrid map all
> over the place. Meetings with local cartographers. Lots of cool stuff to get
> OSM rolling out in spain.
>
> Problem is, I have zero experience setting up mapping parties, and I'm a bit
> afraid of messing things up. So, I'm turning to you for advice. What kind of
> things should I be aware of? How to split people to walk through the city?
> How many posters to print?
>
>
> (Just so Steve doesn't get upset about the signal-to-noise ratio in the
> talk at osm list, please reply to the party at osm list)
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> ----------------------------------
> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>
>
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