[Talk-us] US meetups?

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Jim McAndrew <jim at loc8.us> wrote:
> It definitely needs a community interface.
> And it needs resources to make it extremely simple for someone to set up
> their own mapping parties.
>
> I'm sure I missed some discussions on this, but is there a reason to have
> a separate wiki than the osm.org wiki?
> wiki.osm.org already has a community, already had log ins, and already has
> blogs.

Upcoming, facebook, meetup, etc. are interesting for reaching new
mappers.  OSM reaches existing mappers.  It's nice to be able to reach
both new and existing enthusiasts.