[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Progress/Todo

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Wed Nov 21 15:35:09 GMT 2012


I don't think the Tulsa one is going to happen, lack of venue.


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> the organisation of "Operation Cowboy" seems to be nearly finished.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/Operation_Cowboy<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy>
>
> I guess we have enough target areas and thanks to Martjins Map Roulett
> enough ideas on how to find new tasks :) Thanks fly out to everybody who
> starts a mapping "cake"!
>
> Thanks to Charlotte (Techlady) we had some *press releases* and it seemed
> to worked:
> http://www.spatialsource.com.**au/2012/11/20/article/**
> OpenStreetMap-second-annual-**map-a-thon-on-this-weekend/**RNXTDSVBSV.html<http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/11/20/article/OpenStreetMap-second-annual-map-a-thon-on-this-weekend/RNXTDSVBSV.html>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/**news/item/OpenStreetMap-**
> launches-Operation-Cowboy-**1751382.html<http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-launches-Operation-Cowboy-1751382.html>
>
> But if you like, you can try to still push the event, as it might be a
> good idea to bring attention of US IT media to the quality assurance topic
> and that we still looking for more mappers becausethere is still a lot of
> work to do in America. Sadly slashdot and raddit didn't work for me here :/
>
> Another good thing would be *social media* so spreading to word to attract
> our global community (and others of course):
> - https://twitter.com/opcowboy and #OPC2012
> - Starting a facebook or google+ account anyone?
> - Maintaining the IRC channel? Setup a bot?
>
> Might be interesting, that this party, we __might__ get a nice animation
> by Derick Rethans. But hey, let's first do the job and enjoy the results
> afterwards ;)
>
> bye,
> Matthias
>
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