[Talk-us] US GPS Set for Mapping Parties

[Etienne]

Ian
As someone said, it's possible that Garmin would consider OSM a potential
competitor, however that's not certain and it does us no harm to try.

Perhaps you could draft up your responses to the questions on the form and
post them here for review.  If we can achieve a well worded proposition it
maximizes the chances of a favourable response.

80n

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Etienne <treasurer at openstreetmap.org>wrote:
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>> It would be helpful if you would coordinate funding drives with OSMF.
>>
>> If not planned carefully your efforts might coincide with a centrally
>> planned funding activity.  This has potential to confuse and dilute
>> everyone's efforts.
>>
>> Tell us what you want to achieve and we can help you.
>>
>> OSMF is not incorporated in the US and so does not have 501(c)3 status.
>> If there is interest then, please talk to us, we are currently planning to
>> establish a structure for local chapters and federated member
>> organisations.  This initiative is in the hands of Nick Black (
>> nickblack1 at gmail.com) if you want to get in touch with him.
>>
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> Hi Etienne,
>
> I'm glad you caught this before I finished the form. To sum it up, we're
> trying to talk to Garmin to get sponsorship from them for GPS receivers for
> US-based mapping parties (and potentially other ones around the world, too).
> The form is located here:
> http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGarmin/sponsorship/sponsorship-form.jsp
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> I was planning on filling it out for us, but I would be more than happy to
> see it be a request that ends up with a wider scope than just the US. Based
> on some other posts on osm-talk, it sounds like someone has already
> attempted to talk to Garmin and they have expressed limited interest in a
> UK-only sponsorship, but maybe if they knew about OpenStreetMap's more
> global reach, they would be more interested.
>
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