[Talk-us] Kathleen starting with community outreach for OSM-US

[Alex Barth]

If you're running a local OSM community you'll probably hear soon from Kathleen (copied).

Kathleen's going to start with community outreach for the OpenStreetMap US chapter. Her first goals will be to find out who's active where [1] and find good ways of featuring that on our calendar [2] and blog [3]. Showing what's going on in OSM in the US will be a great start for building more momentum here and inspire others to get out mapping. I'm sure there will be more good stuff we can do to grow and connect our communities better that we will find out in the course of her work.

Kathleen's doing awesome work here in DC co-organizing the @Geo_DC meetups so I'm stoked that she is volunteering her skills for OSM-US work. Get in touch with her if you're interested in OSM community work and in general, never be shy to ask around if you'd like to start working on something in OSM but aren't quite sure where to start :) Aside from your local meetup [1], the virtual mappy hours [2] are a good place to meet more people or just drop me an email.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.us/calendar/
[3] http://openstreetmap.us/

Kathleen on OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KathleenLD
Kathleen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KathleenLD

Alex Barth
(OpenStreetMap US Secretary)
http://twitter.com/lxbarth
tel (+1) 202 250 3633