Re: [diversity-talk] Greetings, thoughts, references

2014-10-08 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
HI all, A few of us have recently put together a Code of Conduct for OSM mailing lists as a place to start, and I believe some moderators are going to start adopting it soon. Here it is: https://github.com/osmlab/CoC-mailing-lists/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md . Please let me know how I can

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter board elections - time is running out!

2014-09-30 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
Well said, Martijn! I'm not sure I have much else to add. Like Martijn already said, while it does require patience, it also allows a lot of room and support to come up with new ideas to grow the OSM US community, and then put them into action. It was very rewarding to plan the largest OSM

[Talk-us] State of the Map US Sprint Day at the American Red Cross HQ, April 14th

2014-02-10 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
Hi all, We are happy to announce that this year the State of the Map US sprint day will be hosted by the American Red Cross at their historic National Headquarters on 17th Street NW. We're excited to have the American Red Cross host this event, especially after seeing them stepping up their

Re: [OSM-talk] good intro slidesets about OSM

2014-01-07 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
Hi Steve, I have one I made that I like to use at US Editathons and OSM intro presentations. You are welcome to use it-- it's linked here: http://pdxmele.com/editathon/ My best, Mele On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Eugene, the talk I gave about a year

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming website features

2013-10-20 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
It's looking awesome! I really appreciate the work. -Mele Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:18:16 -0700 From: Paul Norman penor...@mac.com To: talk@openstreetmap.org, d...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Upcoming website features Message-ID: 03ab01cecd3a$a32e4980$e98adc80$@mac.com

Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-19 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14 people who came and went throughout the day. Lots of newbies too! I did forget to take pictures though-- oops. Feel free to use/fork our resources page and slides here: http://pdxmele.com/editathon Repo: https://github.com/pdxmele/editathon Good luck

Re: [Talk-us] Editing heatmaps for OSM-US canidates

2013-10-06 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
Sad, I think Hawaii is significant -- that's where I grew up! I don't think many people do think it is significant though, which is probably why it's not in great shape in OSM (including a lack of TIGER name expansions in a number of places the last time I looked). -Mele On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US chapter election manifestos

2013-10-03 Thread Melelani Sax-Barnett
Thanks for the reminder, Paul! To be perfectly honest, I was waiting for someone else to put their manifesto up first so I had an idea of what was expected. (Two sentences? A dissertation?) I also just want to wish everyone luck, and express how happy I am that there are four women running. Way