I'm in the same boat as Ian with limited space in my apartment, but I'd love to help out with the mailing.
-- Jim McAndrew On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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