Reminder: The Bay Area OSM meetup group is still alive and has monthly events: http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/
Most of them are run in the South Bay/Peninsula and organized by Shawn Britton. If you want to host events via meetup, just get in touch with me and I can make you can admin on the group (there are about 150 people in the group currently). It would be great to see more events in SF, the east bay and Marin. (I don't have much time to organize anymore). Cheers, Sarah Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:09:52 -0500 > From: Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> > To: "talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap" > <talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: [Talk-us] Why are you missing out on this fun? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikS4h8Cq_XhNbcXrVznAN8Z-usDOuQkz3q3mQ_=@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Why aren't you getting more fun out of OpenStreetMap? > > Because you don't know the right people. > > That's right. You'll enjoy OSM even more than you do now, once you > meet some additional local mappers. But to do that you have to > actually meet them. Yes, email is nice, IRC is fine, but you have to > meet them in person. And you won't know how much more fun that is > until you do it. > > Do you have an OSM group that meets in your town? You should. There > are regular OSM meetings in every town in Germany with more than two > traffic signals.[1] But there are only three OpenStreetMap groups > that meet regularly in the US. That means that there are only six > traffic lights in the USA![2] That is wrong! > > You need to start a local OSM group in your town. Other mappers are > waiting for you to pluck up your nerve, pick a location and a date, > AND DO IT! Book it. Add your local group to the OSM calendar[3], > announce it on talk-us@ and IRC. Invite the local cycling group, Open > Data group and Linux user group. They are all waiting to hear from > you. That's all the planning you have to do. The toughest part is > just setting the first date and that doesn't sound hard at all. Now > do it. > > You'll meet the right people. And have more fun. > > [1] 17% of statistics in this email are fabricated > [2] Some of the logic is stretched too > [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events > > >
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