[Party] Mapping party advice

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Jueves, 8 de Marzo de 2007 09:49, Nick Black escribió:
> Hi Iván,
>
> Its great that you're organising a party in Spain - but you missing
> the most important detail - the dates!

They are already set - the workshop is on april 11th, 18th, and 25th 
(wednesdays). The 11th I'll explain how OSM works, followed by a JOSM 
crash-course. The mapping parties "per se" will be on the 18th and 25th.

Then, on the 26th (thursday), we will hold a round table about the legal and 
social impact of OSM.

> 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... 

I didn't think about non-spanish OSMers coming down here - my goal is to 
involve more spanish mappers. I'm going to tell everyone on the local dorkbot 
meeting, on today's legal conference by David Bravo (a spanish CC lawyer), 
and lots of people in next weeks.

> 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.

This will be hosted by the "MediaLab Madrid". Have a looky here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcuartielles/151924460/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcuartielles/53500312/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcuartielles/53500059/

They'll be providing that huge place, plus GPS loggers (a couple of cheap 
Woxter BT tracers), plus computers to run JOSM. So I can't really push for 
dates: they wanted to host the workshop on several days, a couple of hours 
each afternoon. And not on a weekend.


A question: how long is a "standard" mapping party? A 30-minute walk, or a 
8-hour marathon? As Madrid is mostly unmapped, I though that a two-hour run 
would be OK to map the near districts.


Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>

Mis amigos de izquierdas me toman por un facha y los de derechas por un rojo, 
es lo que tiene el intentar mostrar el "otro lado" de las cosas.
              -- Ramón Toral
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