[Talk-us] US meetups?

[Ian Dees]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jim McAndrew <jim at loc8.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> What are the goals for the openstreetmap.us web page?
>>
>>
> That's a good question that we should probably all discuss.
>
> My opinion is that it should be a one-stop-shop for growing the US OSM
> community. Not entirely sure what that entails, but I imagine it starts
> with:
> - a calendar
> - pages for specific communities both new and established (the DC and Bay
> Area folks come to mind)
> - resources for getting involved (for someone that maybe doesn't want to
> commit to a mapping party yet but still wants to be involved?)
> - ...I ran out of ideas
>
> Any others?
>

Does anyone object to me setting up a copy of the openstreetmap.de site for
openstreetmap.us? They have an excellent framework for the information and
would be a good starting point.

On the other hand, there is absolutely no hurry and we can continue
discussing it if there are objections.
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