[Talk-us] US meetups?

[Steven Johnson]

I like the way Jim has broken out the components of US OSM pages. Some of
these are probably better as wiki pages, others as more static pages. But
having it in 'bite sized chunks' makes it easier to divide the work and
manage the tasks.

SEJ
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 17:43, Jim McAndrew <jim at loc8.us> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:20 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?
>>
> I like the ideas that Richard Weait has of integrating it with more social
> networking tools.  I'm not entirely sure how that would be done without
> being too obtrusive.
>
> People coming to the openstreetmap.us website are going to be interested
> in:
>
>    - Events
>       - Mapping parties
>       - Meetups
>       - Talks
>    - How people can help
>       - Holding Mapping Parties
>       - Doing Personal Mapping
>       - Ideas
>    - Funding OpenStreetMap.us
>       - at least it should be easy for them to do so
>    - Learning more about the organization
>    - How to get a hold of people
>    - Equipment needed to map
>       - walking papers
>       - GPSes
>
> There's really a lot that can go into it.  The wiki format would make it
> easy for the community to add these things as people wish to see them, but
> isn't as attractive to people that aren't used to technical webpages.
>
> -
> Jim McAndrew
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