[OSM-talk] Operation Cowboy - 23. -25.11.

[Matthias Meißer]

Hi everybody,

I'd like to announce the fellow of the "night of the living maps" party: 
"Operation cowboy" :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_cowboy
Guess what, this time it's about mapping the US :)

The date is the weekend from 23.11 till Sunday, so everybody should have 
a chance to get a day, where he can join a local party.
To make it more easy to get a room, I give you this announcement already 
today, even if there are still some todos (detailed mission statement, 
party map, logo, ...).
So please still wait with an official announcement to the public, I bet 
we can fix this things next week.

So if you like to *start a local party* , create a wiki page (or reuse 
the local user group page or your city page) and paste/adapt this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Operation_cowboy
Cool mappers can add this button to the user page, too ;)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_OPC

But hey, I would *need still some help* , to get all the things ready:

1. *Sponsoring*
I already tried to contact OSMF but without an answer. Can anybody 
please ask them again, if they would donate a few bugs per local party, 
to attract organisers? Or what about the GIS-Companies around OSM, would 
they cater a party in their HQs?

2. *Social media*
Is there anybody who likes to start further social channels as facebook 
etc? It's pretty simple, just to spread the things we post at Twitter 
and of course answer questions and present the project (create events ...).

3. *Wiki translation*
Would be great if the wiki could be translated in other languages as 
well. (maybe you can recycle old NOTLM translations). Oh and fixing my 
low level english would be really nice ;)

Later:
Creating a "thank you all" poster with all teams or actually a video 
clip with animated edits and country music would be a great finale.

If you have any questions/ideas, just post it. I think all general 
critics on armchair mapping or our choice of the target area would be 
better in a seperated topic, as the past showed, that they generate a 
lot of traffic.

So I wish you good luck for finding an appreachated location and I'm 
happy looking towards our 2nd global mapping action :)

cya,
Matthias
(user:!i!)