-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-06-11 15:46, Richard Weait wrote: > So, previous (Toronto) OSM Birthday parties / anniversaries have been social > affairs, with food and drink and unstructured conversation. Usually (exclusively, to date ?) at a private residence. > > Any thoughts about continuing on those points, or changes refinements that you'd like to enable?
I think it's always interesting to have public events, but it's also OK for OSM fans and contributors to just get together. It's always nice to meet new people and learn from them or share what your experience have been. > Also. If you have attended one or more of these events, what would you want > to tell somebody who hasn't attended, so they can decide to attend or not? I am not sure what the question is here. I just advertise events I organize, and the rest happens naturally. Of it's important that you have a large-ish audience (>30 or more), then advertising, inviting in advance (>3 weeks) is important, and sponsorship/networking/good locations help. It's specially important to let other local contributors know about the organizing actions so they can help, it's also a matter of transparency. If you're not the organizer, sometimes just asking if someone else is interested gets things going. Otherwise any cafe/bar is good and I personally consider any such event having 3 people or more to be a success. It also depends on your objectives: business? advocacy? mapping? fun? all? YMMV. F. - -- Fabián Rodríguez http://openstreetmap.magicfab.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG5I4IACgkQfUcTXFrypNXgCACgpP+N+InJTpHWrKncBBwgFDCf HjcAoImAFfzLDzvdTWK8sUTqwn8iAzj6 =49uR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
