Hi Mark No need to very bored in Redditch. There's a shedload of mapping to do in Redditch. What are you currently mapping? We may be able to give some remote assistance with armchair mapping and/or problem solving. Have you tried using photos with Mapillary? It's great for capturing lots of detail
Regards Brian On 4 May 2016 at 17:43, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint < mark.croft....@gmail.com> wrote: > i did not know it was common for OSS/linux/opensource/etc style > projects to charge there volunteers to attend , wish i was rich > computer programmer with lots of free time to kill at these events but > i am not , i am the complete opposition being disabled and unable to > find any neche in the computer world anymore , i found work very hard > when i was a computer programmer starting out and was only in work for > 4 years and the company had a restructing. I lost my job and never > found another one been unemployed for 22 years now. I do not have a > degree and did try to get a computer programming degree but cos i was > too bad customer for the banks i could not pay for student halls (i > never paid for accomodation in the end at univeristy of humberside n > licoln at the hull campus) it was a nightmare. I did get a little bit > of support from disabled student suppport services got diagnose with > dyselixa and got a special stamp that i used on my assignments which > really meant that the lectureers just gave me a pass mark on most of > them some of thut programming stuff i was getting merits on. I found > the degree pretty lame really and a lot of very dishearted lectureers > that where being overworked and stretched across a number of different > campuses. > The maths lecture just told me to copy somebody elses work cos he did > not have time to explain it too me. > > so in the end i never went back after the first year and a few grand > in debt to the student loan company i guess they will never get it > back. > > very bored mark in redditch > > On 3 May 2016 at 18:08, Martín Ferrari <tin...@tincho.org> wrote: > > On 02/05/16 21:56, Rob Nickerson wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Tickets for State of the Map 2016 are now on sale. Get yours before the > >> price goes up (to EUR 100)! > > > > Sadly, this cost is too high to justify attending. I care about OSM, and > > I have been a silent contributor for years, but spending on plane > > tickets, acommodation, and on top of that 75-100 EUR to attend the > > conference, is just too much money for this little hobby of mine. > > > > I think it is a sad state when most libre projects I care about charge > > its own volunteers to gather and improve the community, specially when > > corporate sponsors could be offsetting this cost. OSM is far from the > > only one, I am just writing this because I am getting increasingly > > annoyed by the situation. > > > > -- > > Martín Ferrari (Tincho) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > > talk-gb-westmidla...@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > talk-gb-westmidla...@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
