We already did/do that : 1. Sunnyvale and SF Edit-a-thons used a Google Hangout so that I could give a remote bootstrap to SF as they did not have a local leader. Seemed to work 2. BiWeekly Mappy Hours are held, also via Hangout and are well attended and also seem to work
Google hangout is challenged wrt to scalability; it'd be good to have more video participants. Local F2F is surely better; but remotes can be effective to spinup remote/detached folks who then act as seeds/centers around which locals can form. Let's stay open to all the possibilities. A little encouragement and interaction seems to go a long way, even if beers are NOT involved ;-) On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Kathleen Danielson < kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Re: Map -- All in good time. (Gotta write up my blog post first...) > > Re: Remote meetup deployment: I love that idea and think it would be an > awesome goal 6 months from now. I'd love to have built up a local OSM user > group organizer toolkit by then, so that we can give them some tried and > tested resources to keep things going. > > Re: Sponsors-- might be something that corporate OSM users would like to > sponsor... > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > >> Stupid suggestion - plot these on a map. >> >> Would be interesting to see which high-populaion areas *don't* have a >> meet up and then see if we can organize something remotely and then some of >> us fly in for a weekend, if inclined, to kick things off. >> >> Costs would be $200 for SWA flights plus $200 for hotels or something. I >> suspect we could find that kind of money somewhere to sponsor someone to do >> this. >> >> Steve >> >> On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Kathleen Danielson < >> kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be >> a lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on my list. If >> you organize *or are a member of* (or just know of) a local user group from >> somewhere other than the areas listed below, please let me know ASAP! >> >> New York >> Chicago >> Washington, DC >> Boston >> San Francisco (I'm combining this with Sunnyvale, but let me know if >> that's incorrect and they are really two separate entities) >> Seattle >> St Louis >> Tampa >> Portland >> Cleveland >> Salt Lake City >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Kathleen Danielson < >> kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Calling all OSM Local User Group organizers-- >>> >>> Over the last several weeks I have reached out to many of you, but I am >>> certain that I missed a few. I am working on wrapping my initial findings >>> on the local OSM communities in the US, but I want to ensure that you're >>> all represented. >>> >>> If we have NOT directly connected about your local OSM group, please >>> shoot me a quick note to let me know that and I'll have some follow up >>> questions for you after that. Nothing taxing or time-consuming, I swear! >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Kathleen >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- John Novak 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676) http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanovak/ OSM ID:oldtopos OSM Heat Map: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?oldtopos OSM Edit Stats:http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?oldtopos
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