[Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

[Paul Norman]

On 10/14/2015 5:30 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> - in each state, have a state mailinglist, limited to people who
>    actively map in the state, because they live there, or because they
>    drive there to work.  Explicitly discourage non-locals from joining.
>    These lists would have more of a "people you might meet for a geobeer
>    session someday" flavor, rather than people you've never met and
>    won't.

We've got Puget Sound (northwest Washington State) and New York State 
lists. I wouldn't say either has been that much of a success. 
talk-us-pugetsound has had 4 messages in the last year, all 
announcements, and the region has a reasonably active OSM community for 
the US. talk-us-newyork has similar numbers, though I'm not sure how 
active the OSM community is there, as opposed to the geo- community.

The problem is that if you make a discussion group too small, it doesn't 
have enough activity to sustain interest in it.

Larger regions might work, but even a statewide group abandons the might 
meet for a geobeer idea where it takes 6 hours to drive across the state.

Unfortunately, I don't have any great ideas.