[Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [OSM-talk-ie] Registration is Now Open for State of the Map!

[Brian Prangle]

Hi Mark

No need to very bored in Redditch. There's a shedload of mapping to do in
Redditch. What are you currently mapping? We may be able to give some
remote assistance with armchair mapping and/or problem solving. Have you
tried using photos with Mapillary?  It's great for capturing lots of detail

Regards

Brian

On 4 May 2016 at 17:43, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint <
mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:

> i did not know it was common for OSS/linux/opensource/etc style
> projects to charge there volunteers to attend , wish i was rich
> computer programmer with lots of free time to kill at these events but
> i am not , i am the complete opposition being disabled and unable to
> find any neche in the computer world anymore , i found work very hard
> when i was a computer programmer starting out and was only in work for
> 4 years and the company had a restructing. I lost my job and never
> found another one been unemployed for 22 years now. I do not have a
> degree and did try to get a computer programming degree but cos i was
> too bad customer for the banks i could not pay for student halls (i
> never paid for accomodation in the end at univeristy of humberside n
> licoln at the hull campus) it was a nightmare. I did get a little bit
> of support from disabled student suppport services got diagnose with
> dyselixa and got a special stamp that i used on my assignments which
> really meant that the lectureers just gave me a pass mark on most of
> them some of thut programming stuff i was getting merits on.  I found
> the degree pretty lame really and a lot of very dishearted lectureers
> that where being overworked and stretched across a number of different
> campuses.
> The maths lecture just told me to copy somebody elses work cos he did
> not have time to explain it too me.
>
> so in the end i never went back after the first year and a few grand
> in debt to the student loan company i guess they will never get it
> back.
>
> very bored mark in  redditch
>
> On 3 May 2016 at 18:08, Martín Ferrari <tincho at tincho.org> wrote:
> > On 02/05/16 21:56, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Tickets for State of the Map 2016 are now on sale. Get yours before the
> >> price goes up (to EUR 100)!
> >
> > Sadly, this cost is too high to justify attending. I care about OSM, and
> > I have been a silent contributor for years, but spending on plane
> > tickets, acommodation, and on top of that 75-100 EUR to attend the
> > conference, is just too much money for this little hobby of mine.
> >
> > I think it is a sad state when most libre projects I care about charge
> > its own volunteers to gather and improve the community, specially when
> > corporate sponsors could be offsetting this cost. OSM is far from the
> > only one, I am just writing this because I am getting increasingly
> > annoyed by the situation.
> >
> > --
> > Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
> >
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