[OSM-talk] Cancel Västerås

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 08:38, Stephan Schildberg wrote:
> Lars Aronsson schrieb:
> > I don't think I can be
> > the locomotive when the train is missing.  Maybe OSM is a great
> > idea whose time just hasn't come (to Sweden, anyway) yet.
>
> If I would announce a mapping weekend in Hamburg, I wouldn't expect many
> people to show up then, even if some would like to go (officially we are
> 3 for 755km2) , there are always reasons not to come. We spread the idea
> in several societies who are either interested in IT, sports and nature
> conservation.
> It has to grow, the momentum we generate is just not quite enough, but
> following further promotion I calculate with some awareness next spring.

Even in Munich where we are at least 10-15 people mapping, we just tried to 
meet all together and didn't succeed by now. There seem to be different 
reasons: 
 - Not everyone is on the talk-* lists
 - Even not everyone has an OSM Account yet
 - Not everyone has time at any date
 - Maybe we havn't set up the location early enough
 - Maybe many more
 
But we'll try to spread the Idea and I think latest by mid of next year we'll 
have a community here in Germany too. But as many things it'll take some 
time.
You can see that the Idea is already spreading by looking at small things. You 
remember the 10 NaviGPS I had for borrowing; 5 of them are already out 
mapping regions in Germany. I think we need small steps. Trying to install 
all the osm-tools on a newbie PC is still a little challenge. So I think 
we'll have to work hard on this side first.

B.T.W. the first Munich meetup is tonight 11.10.2006 
 20:00 im Lindengarten,
 Ecke Solalindenstraße und Friedenspromenade, 
 48,115 Nord und 11,678 Ost.
 And Up to now we only have 2-3 People comming.

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)