[Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Kathleen Danielson <
kathleen.danielson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Re: Map -- All in good time. (Gotta write up my blog post first...)
>

http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de/?zoom=3&lat=35.96022&lon=-80.33203&layers=B0TFT


> Re: Remote meetup deployment: I love that idea and think it would be an
> awesome goal 6 months from now. I'd love to have built up a local OSM user
> group organizer toolkit by then, so that we can give them some tried and
> tested resources to keep things going.
>

hrm.  imho, having outsiders parachute in to (kick-)start a local group
discourages local leadership.  The locals end up thinking, "hey, they'll
come back and we can do it again some time.  No need for us to organize
anything", or something.  That's not our goal. :(
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