Hi All, OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing
Kind regards, Grant On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S <danstowell+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we > should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press > coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis > world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. > > There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and > that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, > perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might > appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London > is the birthplace of OSM. > > A couple of ideas: > > * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS > track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) > > * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first > ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque > to each place to commemorate its place in history. > > To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can > write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something > photogenic. So let's get more creative... > > * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in > London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! > > * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... > > Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb