[talk-ph] OSM-PH @ Software Freedom Day 2011

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 16:46:32 BST 2011


OK, I'm in to assist.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Software Freedom Day 2011 will already be held this coming Saturday,
> September 17 at the University of Santo Tomas.
>
> OpenStreetMap Philippines will be conducting a workshop on OSM at 1 of
> the 5 breakout sessions in the afternoon from 1 to 4 pm at the AMV
> Hall <http://osm.org/go/4zhQl5P24--?m>. We are sharing the timeslot
> with Ushahidi who will talk about crowdsourcing humanitarian crisis
> information.
>
> For the workshop, we plan to introduce OSM to the attendees (most of
> them are college students), have a mini-mapping party in and around
> UST (there are lots of unmapped POIs), and show them how to edit and
> contribute data to OSM.
>
> As of September 3, there are already 1,600 registered participants to
> SFD as a whole. So I'm expecting that there would be around 200-300
> people (!!!) attending the OSM workshop.
>
> Feel free to join the fun! We could definitely use a lot of hands. :-)
>
> Eugene
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:22 PM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> We have a slot/session in the upcoming Software Freedom Day 2011 in
>> UST Sept. 17, 2011.  We urged Pinoy OSMers to join and help us run the
>> session.
>> Details and confirmation of attendance here:
>> https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210784685637970
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
>



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maning
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