[Talk-us] Summer editathon: OpenStreetMap Summer Camp

[Alex Barth]

Ha, awesome. Great way to make the event more inclusive for folks who don't
want to spend their weekend day away from family. Someone at SOTM-EU gave
me the same idea. Why not do Aug 9 on OSM's birthday? At OSM US we were
planning on calling the next editathon on Aug 9.

Alex



On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's not too early to start thinking about this summer's (July?) editathon
> and I'd like to propose we turn this one be a family/youth-oriented event
> and give it a theme: OpenStreetMap Summer Camp. The idea is simply to
> conduct the editathons much like we have in the past, but make a concerted
> effort to get parents to bring their kids or get kids to come on their own
> to get more middle- and high-school kids started with OpenStreetMap.
>
> I'm willing to serve as a mentor/organizer for a DC-based event, but it
> would be great if we could maximize the impact by getting this going
> nationwide. The basic format of the editathon would stay the same, but it
> might require a little extra legwork locally to reach our target audience.
> I haven't worked through those details yet, but want to put it out to the
> community for discussion.
>
> -- SEJ
> -- twitter: @geomantic
> -- skype: sejohnson8
>
> There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate
> from incomplete data.
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