On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger <kakrue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thea Aldrich wrote: >> >> Our question to the >> community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would >> you like? >> > I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be > useful for to support the community and help spread the word. > > One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to > people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why > people should care to contribute. > > From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success > with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now > also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it > only extends its offer to UK. > > So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US, > although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better > first.
There is at least one English language flyer around. If I recall the biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings from a US address. Is somebody willing to do that? ideally, the volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us