[OSM-talk-be] a slightly more formal meetup

Wed Oct 5 07:28:22 UTC 2016

Seems like Jonathan will organize the whole thing :)

Yeaaah … Well … Uuuuh … :D

Jonathan Beliën

GEO-6

De : joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : mercredi 5 octobre 2016 09:09
À : OpenStreetMap Belgium
Objet : Re: [OSM-talk-be] a slightly more formal meetup

I think we have our speakers :)

(I myself would love to talk about GR mapping, Wegenregister and some of the subjects Marc mentioned)

About the language thing: of the 155 people who opened our newsletter, 13 clicked through to the French translation, and 4 to the Dutch (it was the very first link in view). I think that's really a lot of effort for little gain. If we have more volunteers organizing stuff, I do agree it makes sense to talk to people in their own language. Being extremely local does work: when I did a meetup here in Halle, someone came from a small town 45 minutes away, because he preferred going to something in a small town, rather than in nearby Mechelen. But at this time, I think there's real value in doing things that are open to both Brussels and Flemish people. Especially as we have Flemish volunteers who have been working a little too hard, and a lot of energy in Brussels right now.

And don't forget there is a huge international community in Brussels, for whom often both French and Dutch are quite exotic. 

So please do sign up on the framapad, and let's pick a date. Seems like Jonathan will organize the whole thing :)

Seriously though, let me know if you're interested to help out and I'll keep you in the loop.

2016-10-05 9:03 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Beliën <jbe at geo6.be>:

Hi everyone,

Awesome idea !

Not very comfortable (yet ?) to give a talk ;

But I live in Brussels so I could totally help to organise the thing (find a place, …) !

Jonathan Beliën

GEO-6

De : joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : mardi 4 octobre 2016 19:59
À : OpenStreetMap Belgium
Objet : [OSM-talk-be] a slightly more formal meetup

Hi,

I'm very happy to see another bar meetup in Brussels! [1] You should all come :)

But would anyone be interested in a little more formal thing? I believe it was in Hungaria where they frequently do meetups with two or three presentations, roughly related to OpenStreetMap. They always get about 50 participants, which sounds great. Don't worry, there would be beers and lemonades afterwards. 

The logical place would be Brussels, as it is the most central location. It takes a little more time and effort to organize, but I think some of the amazing Brussels based people might be interested to help out.

Anyway, I made a framadate to check if anyone is interested, and if so, when [2]. Interested to find out if anyone is willing to help or present something.

We can of course discuss the idea over a geuze at the next Brussels meetup.

1: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/234599761/

2: https://framadate.org/74wPQ5W8AVKNUhjp

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