[Talk-us] Last call spring #editathon

[Alan McConchie]

We had a big turnout in San Francisco, with about 40 people showing up over the course of the day. We think we had a peak of about 30 people all at the same time in the early afternoon, around 2-3pm. By the end of the day the numbers dwindled to about a dozen.

Big thanks to Telenav for buying pizzas for the contributors who stayed until dinner time!

I wrote up a post (including pictures) on the Stamen blog here: http://content.stamen.com/openstreetmap_spring_editathon

Alan


On Apr 29, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. 
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> There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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> 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.
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> 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 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!
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> 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.
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> Are you planning to host an #editathon this upcoming weekend?
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> Put your place on the list to be in the blog announcement on openstreetmap.us tomorrow: 
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> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Spring_Editathon_2014
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> Learn all about #editathon's here: http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/
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