[Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

Kate Chapman kate at maploser.com
Fri May 27 18:44:33 BST 2011


Richard is right, there is an English language flyer.  I believe
Frederik Ramm has it.

If someone can volunteer to mail it that would be great.  I'm home
less than 50% of the year so I don't think I'm the right person.

-Kate

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> 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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