[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Progress/Todo

Martijn van Exel m at rtijn.org
Wed Nov 21 20:24:18 GMT 2012


Hmm sorry to hear that! To offset a negative experience, my experience
with the SLC public library has consistently been great - they have an
online reservation form, where you can state you preference for room
size (I think they have rooms to accommodate up to 50 people) and
equipment / services / room layout required. They always get back to
me within a day or two, and the best part is that it's free for
non-profits holding public events. (They charge fees for closed events
/ commercial users.) And on top of that, it's a great building[1].

[1] http://www.architectureweek.com/2011/0105/design_3-1.html

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> I've tried to do that, Tulsa County referred me to Creek County...Creek
> County doesn't return my calls and they never seem to be open (do we still
> have a library??).  I think Thanksgiving is a big factor, and I would expect
> the lack of visibility among tribal citizens being a contributor (my tribe
> doesn't consider this week to have holidays, for example; not sure about
> others).
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 21, 2012, Jim McAndrew wrote:
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Martijn had suggested contacting the local library and seeing if you can
>> reserve a study room or something like that.
>>
>> If you can't pull something together this weekend (it's not really a good
>> weekend for get togethers in the US), I would love to attend a mapping party
>> in OK in the future. So planning a mapping party in the future could also be
>> a good idea.
>>
>> --
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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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