[Talk-us] Why are you missing out on this fun?

[Bill R. WASHBURN]

The OSM Georgia meetup group is today, Feb 5, from noon to 3 PM at Raging
Burrito in Decatur, Georgia, USA.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143384779054605

Bill R. WASHBURN


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 04:02, Bill R. WASHBURN <dygituljunky at gmail.com>wrote:

> OK, I'll bite.
>
> Anyone in the Atlanta area willing to meet up (or north of the fall line in
> Georgia who can come in to the MARTA service area), please send me a message
> and we'll see if we can work out the timing off-list. I know there are a
> bunch of mappers in the Decatur area so I'll propose that we meet up near
> Decatur, Emory, or some place downtown.
>
> Bill R. WASHBURN
> aka, dygituljunky
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:09, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>
>> Why aren't you getting more fun out of OpenStreetMap?
>>
>> Because you don't know the right people.
>>
>> That's right.  You'll enjoy OSM even more than you do now, once you
>> meet some additional local mappers.  But to do that you have to
>> actually meet them.  Yes, email is nice, IRC is fine, but you have to
>> meet them in person.  And you won't know how much more fun that is
>> until you do it.
>>
>> Do you have an OSM group that meets in your town?  You should.  There
>> are regular OSM meetings in every town in Germany with more than two
>> traffic signals.[1]  But there are only three OpenStreetMap groups
>> that meet regularly in the US.  That means that there are only six
>> traffic lights in the USA![2]  That is wrong!
>>
>> You need to start a local OSM group in your town.  Other mappers are
>> waiting for you to pluck up your nerve, pick a location and a date,
>> AND DO IT!  Book it.  Add your local group to the OSM calendar[3],
>> announce it on talk-us@ and IRC.  Invite the local cycling group, Open
>> Data group and Linux user group.  They are all waiting to hear from
>> you.  That's all the planning you have to do.  The toughest part is
>> just setting the first date and that doesn't sound hard at all.  Now
>> do it.
>>
>> You'll meet the right people. And have more fun.
>>
>> [1] 17% of statistics in this email are fabricated
>> [2] Some of the logic is stretched too
>> [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events
>>
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