I'd be happy to do some mailing. I don't have a whole lot of room to store boxes of pamphlets in my apartment, but I could do a few batches.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com> wrote: > Richard is right, there is an English language flyer. I believe > Frederik Ramm has it. > > If someone can volunteer to mail it that would be great. I'm home > less than 50% of the year so I don't think I'm the right person. > > -Kate > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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