[OSM-talk] SotM11 will be held in Denver.

Dave F. davefox at madasafish.com
Sun Oct 24 23:35:59 BST 2010


On 24/10/2010 09:40, Nic Roets wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli 
> <julio.costa at openstreetmap.cl <mailto:julio.costa at openstreetmap.cl>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>     contributors, core developers, authors, etc. are still in Germany, the
>     UK and other countries of Western Europe,
>
>
> As an outsider to the bidding and selection process, I think that 
> hosting it in the US will be good for OSM. If a company wants to 
> announce a new technology, they almost always do it in the US for 
> various reasons e.g. the story gets picked up by international TV 
> channels, the vast numbers of foreign born US residents spread the 
> idea throughout the world etc

Is that why Dell launched it's Streak mobile 'phone in the UK first?

> . Also consider the fact that the Cloudmade and MapQuest ambassador 
> programs

What's an 'ambassador' program?

Cheers
Dave F.
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