[Talk-us] US meetups?

[Kate Chapman]

Agreed, I see the reason for incorporating as a means to help people  
do some specific things.  It is not a means to do all things.  If  
anyone else wants to grow the community, make sweet new tools, etc  
please do! I'd hope you weren't waiting around for approval or  
anything like that.

If there is something that you want to do that having a formal  
organization can help with let us know.

Kate

On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:51 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>
>> On 4/30/10 12:50 PM, Thea Clay wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally I agree with Ian’s idea. I would love to see an OSM-U 
>>> S site like the one in Germany ( http://www.openstreetmap.de/) t 
>>> hat would have city level pages similar to MappingDC. If I remem 
>>> ber correctly we have donated servers re Ian and SteveC has the  
>>> domain openstreetmap.us ( http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-us@openstreetmap.org/msg02623.html 
>>> ). That way we can serve the needs of current members but also h 
>>> ave an engaging centralized place were newbies can go to find re 
>>> sources, connect with other mappers in their area or, if there a 
>>> re no other mappers nearby, start the local community themselves.
>> openstreetmap.us is currently pointed at the donated servers, which  
>> Ian has set up,
>> but there is no main web page configured right this minute. apache  
>> is there, it works,
>> but the only web page there is a default "it works" page.
>>
>> i think it's up to us (the board of OSM US) to jump start such usage.
>
> I disagree, the board should get out of the way and let anyone who  
> wants to help JFDI. That's what we do at OSMF, or at least try to do.
>
>>
>> richard
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> Yours &c.
>
> Steve
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