[Talk-us] Mappy hours in May

[Martijn van Exel]

Didnt mean to exclude it, Paul! It's just that I hear so little about
people using it within the OSM community. But we have a page,
https://plus.google.com/+OpenstreetmapUs - so we should use it if
others do.

Martijn
Martijn van Exel
skype: mvexel


On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I will be in Europe in May and I won't be able to run our next three
>> mappy hours. I am looking for a volunteer to run them. This involves
>> announcing them (or rather reminding people) for May 4, May 18 and
>> June 1 here on talk-us (and optionally facebook, twitter, IRC) and
>> showing up at 8:30pm ET at http://bit.ly/osm-mappy-hour. Optional but
>> recommended: come up with a topic or invite a speaker!
>
>
> Since this tends to use Hangouts and YouTube, kind of surprised Google+ is
> left out of the mix.  Note that I may be biased since G+ is the only
> nonspecialized social network I use, finding Facebook uninteresting as it's
> almost exclusively inhabited by people twice my age, political and religious
> extremists, and stalkers from high school who forgot they hated me then and
> never apologized.  Twitter suffers the opposite problem (at least in English
> and other alphabet-based languages), as it tends to be so short as to not be
> able to express an intelligent thought on it...