[OSM-talk-be] Your help needed: support request to Stichting NLnet

[Jo]

Dennis Bollyn wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Mark Van den Borre schreef:
>   
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I need your support to ask Stichting NLnet for 10 gps data loggers in
>> the name of openstreetmap Belgium. Valer Mischenko (Stichting NLnet)
>> is wondering if this support request is carried broadly enough within
>> openstreetmap Belgium. If you like the idea, please URGENTLY SHOW YOUR
>> EXPLICIT AGREEMENT in an answer to this list.
>>     
>
> For the record, I agree with your proposal.
> The exact details such as the amount and type can be worked out later.
> It might also be interesting to have a small budget allocated for 
> equipping a booth at a convention (banners, hand-out cards, ...).
>
>   
>> My proposal:
>>
>> • We present our goal just like openstreetmap international does.
>> "OpenStreetMap Belgium is a loosely-knit team of Belgian volunteers.
>> Our goal is to create free geographic data such as street maps to
>> anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you
>> think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on
>> their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive
>> or unexpected ways. Openstreetmap Belgium strives to work in close
>> cooperation with volunteer teams around the world, especially in
>> neighbouring countries. Openstreetmap Holland is our preferred partner
>> because of their wealth of expertise and the common language."
>>     
I also agree with the proposal, but I also want to stress that the 
budget should include promotional material and maybe include bus/train 
fares for people for whom this would present a problem to attend a 
mapping party. I think we should start with buying, say 5 GPS devices. 2 
Of them already have people who would start using them to go mapping. 
The others can be used for the same purpose, so more or less permanent 
lend outs, except when a mapping party is going on, then they should be 
gathered again and be lend out for the day/weekend. Prices continue to 
drop, that's why I would buy 5 to start with and then buy 5 more later, 
when the movement expands.

Polyglot