[Talk-us] Mappy hours in May

[Paul Johnson]

I've been following it, even if it hasn't posted anything.  Don't know if
you actually have to be a card-carrying, dues-paying member (I've been a
bit depleted cash-wise since around the time I joined, so in my own
imagination, I'm a member, I just pay in sweat equity) to post on behalf
of, but if you need help, I don't mind curating it.

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> 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...
>
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