Hmm sorry to hear that! To offset a negative experience, my experience with the SLC public library has consistently been great - they have an online reservation form, where you can state you preference for room size (I think they have rooms to accommodate up to 50 people) and equipment / services / room layout required. They always get back to me within a day or two, and the best part is that it's free for non-profits holding public events. (They charge fees for closed events / commercial users.) And on top of that, it's a great building[1].
[1] http://www.architectureweek.com/2011/0105/design_3-1.html On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > I've tried to do that, Tulsa County referred me to Creek County...Creek > County doesn't return my calls and they never seem to be open (do we still > have a library??). I think Thanksgiving is a big factor, and I would expect > the lack of visibility among tribal citizens being a contributor (my tribe > doesn't consider this week to have holidays, for example; not sure about > others). > > > On Wednesday, November 21, 2012, Jim McAndrew wrote: >> >> Paul, >> >> Martijn had suggested contacting the local library and seeing if you can >> reserve a study room or something like that. >> >> If you can't pull something together this weekend (it's not really a good >> weekend for get togethers in the US), I would love to attend a mapping party >> in OK in the future. So planning a mapping party in the future could also be >> a good idea. >> >> -- >> Jim >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >>> >>> I don't think the Tulsa one is going to happen, lack of venue. >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us