[Talk-us] Who is mapping on the ground in US?

[Steve Coast]

Hi Ed

Sounds like chicken and egg again.. I'd urge you to set something up :-)

Steve

On 6/2/2011 11:05 AM, Hillsman, Edward wrote:
>
> >If you set up a group on meetup.com you'd be surprised how many people
>
> >join and start to get interested once you have a group meeting monthly.
>
> There is a fee to set up a group on Meetup. Someone had such a group 
> in Tampa, and held a mapping party that introduced me to OSM. That was 
> the only mapping party here since I became aware of OSM. The organizer 
> let the membership lapse and looked for someone else to take it over. 
> I wasn't willing to pay $72 every six months, and apparently no one 
> else was, either. I have never been very successful at enrolling 
> people into new activities, although I am pretty good at supporting a 
> group and keeping it on track if someone else leads it. Meaning, among 
> other things, that if we had an active group here and found Meetup 
> useful for keeping it going, I'd be willing to pay the Meetup cost.
>
> Ed Hillsman
>
>
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