It is great to see some good PR happening before the event kicks off! I just put up a blog post about a few things I have done to try and help out before the fact. [1]
I mention this at the end of the post and it is listed on the wiki page but please do be aware that there is an IRC channel dedicated to this event and it would be nice to have some people who are familiar with TIGER data in there whenever possible to answer questions in real time. I pinged TomH about this but didn't get a response yet... do people think it would be a good idea to have the #opc2012 channel listed on http://irc.osm.org for the weekend? That way the link on the wiki page could point at the web client instead of counting on users to have a desktop IRC client installed and knowing how to use it. If so, I'll try to get Tom's attention again. [1] http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2012/11/preparing-for-operation-cowboy.html Toby On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Matthias Meißer <dig...@arcor.de> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > the organisation of "Operation Cowboy" seems to be nearly finished. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy > > I guess we have enough target areas and thanks to Martjins Map Roulett > enough ideas on how to find new tasks :) Thanks fly out to everybody who > starts a mapping "cake"! > > Thanks to Charlotte (Techlady) we had some *press releases* and it seemed to > worked: > http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/11/20/article/OpenStreetMap-second-annual-map-a-thon-on-this-weekend/RNXTDSVBSV.html > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-launches-Operation-Cowboy-1751382.html > > But if you like, you can try to still push the event, as it might be a good > idea to bring attention of US IT media to the quality assurance topic and > that we still looking for more mappers becausethere is still a lot of work > to do in America. Sadly slashdot and raddit didn't work for me here :/ > > Another good thing would be *social media* so spreading to word to attract > our global community (and others of course): > - https://twitter.com/opcowboy and #OPC2012 > - Starting a facebook or google+ account anyone? > - Maintaining the IRC channel? Setup a bot? > > Might be interesting, that this party, we __might__ get a nice animation by > Derick Rethans. But hey, let's first do the job and enjoy the results > afterwards ;) > > bye, > Matthias > > _______________________________________________ > 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
