[Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag

[Jim McAndrew]

I'm in the same boat as Ian with limited space in my apartment, but I'd love
to help out with the mailing.

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Jim McAndrew

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd be happy to do some mailing. I don't have a whole lot of room to store
> boxes of pamphlets in my apartment, but I could do a few batches.
>
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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