[Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Fri May 27 17:09:20 BST 2011


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thea Aldrich wrote:
>>
>> Our question to the
>> community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would
>> you like?
>>
> I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be
> useful for to support the community and help spread the word.
>
> One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to
> people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why
> people should care to contribute.
>
> From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success
> with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now
> also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it
> only extends its offer to UK.
>
> So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US,
> although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better
> first.

There is at least one English language flyer around.  If I recall the
biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings
from a US address.  Is somebody willing to do that?  ideally, the
volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests.



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