[Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

[Steven Johnson]

I'll amplify Alex' comment about our DC editathon by adding that two of our
participants were a father-son team mapping their neighborhood. Let's do
more to encourage parents to bring their kids and get youthful mappers in
the pipeline. Get 'em started young and make lifelong mappers out of 'em.

-- SEJ
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There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from
incomplete data.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Alex Barth <alex at openstreetmap.us> wrote:

> DC went great with about 25 people showing up. Had a great conversation
> here with steven johnson about going more directly after student
> participants. Maybe a model for other editathons too? For dc, it definitely
> helps branding the editathon as explicitly open to beginners. We routinely
> have about 10 pple show up who havent done much openstreetmap before.
>
>
> On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>> I got pretty much no response locally to the idea, but then discovered
>> that eastern Oklahoma was already awash in events this weekend.  I
>> ultimately went to Wild Nights <http://www.wildnights.org/> and I'm
>> doing laundry now.  I believe we also had a couple big renfaires and a
>> maker's fair in the region this weekend, and next weekend's another big
>> renfaire weekend.  Aah, the perils of trying to organize an editathon in a
>> part of the country where nerdy pursuits are mainstream!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Alex Barth <alex at openstreetmap.us>wrote:
>>
>>> This weekend the annual OpenStreetMap spring #editathon takes place in
>>> the US.
>>>
>>> Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend?
>>>
>>> Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on
>>> openstreetmap.us tomorrow:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014
>>>
>>> Learn all about #editathon's here:
>>> http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
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