Hi, Even though we're natural partners, we don't do that much together. After the National Mapathon, Jonathan, Maelle and myself had a few beers and a long talk. It convinced me that we could do more.
I would like to propose two things: - at OSM Belgium, we use Meetup [1] to organize all our events. But we publish all of them at our Maptime [2] page too. How about we share the Maptime page to announce both OSM and OsGeo events? - Maptime is actually supposed to be about easy events where you actually learn to do some webmapping. For example, learning how to make a Leaflet map. We would like to organize a little event where you can learn how to build a simple map with Overpass-Turbo [3], Umap [4] or Mapcontrib [5]. All very userfriendly, but still quite powerful. I think it would be an excellent thing to do together, because we could recruit people that tend more towards data-collection for OpenStreetMap Belgium and those that are more interested in open source software for OsGeo. Also, I think it would be very fun to do. Because it is within the scope of the Maptime project, we could get Free Pizza (sponsored by Carto, former CartoDB). Who doesn't like free pizza? Anyway, share your thoughts, and efforts :) 1: https://meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/ 2: http://maptime.io/belgium/ 3: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_turbo 4: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap 5: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapContrib -- Joost Schouppe OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/>
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