[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Progress/Todo

[Martijn van Exel]

That is a great post. I will just link to that on openstreetmap.us
instead of writing another one!

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is great to see some good PR happening before the event kicks off!
>
> I just put up a blog post about a few things I have done to try and
> help out before the fact. [1]
>
> I mention this at the end of the post and it is listed on the wiki
> page but please do be aware that there is an IRC channel dedicated to
> this event and it would be nice to have some people who are familiar
> with TIGER data in there whenever possible to answer questions in real
> time. I pinged TomH about this but didn't get a response yet... do
> people think it would be a good idea to have the #opc2012 channel
> listed on http://irc.osm.org for the weekend? That way the link on the
> wiki page could point at the web client instead of counting on users
> to have a desktop IRC client installed and knowing how to use it. If
> so, I'll try to get Tom's attention again.
>
> [1] http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2012/11/preparing-for-operation-cowboy.html
>
> Toby
>
> 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
>>
>> 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.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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