A corporation might offer a grant for that to OSM US if it wanted to manage that (especially if tax deductible), but it would be challenging to offer it to a number of smaller groups.
-Randy On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Kam, Kristen -(p) <krist...@telenav.com> > wrote: >> >> Why can’t you use Meetup for existing groups and also use Facebook as a >> mechanism organize members for new groups and associated events? >> >> > > > Meetup, as others have said, reaches people you'd never find using other > means. When I joined the Seattle group, we had around 50 members. It's now > over 160. Much of the growth comes from people seeing something that speaks > to them. I think we could attract more mappers by expanding Meetup Groups > into more cities. According to the wiki, we have groups in 20+ cities. How > about a goal of having active groups in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in > the country? > > I'm not sure how many people have discovered us through Facebook. Maybe > someone else can speak to that. Certainly we need to explore more avenues to > grow membership. > > I believe if a corporation were to offer grants to individuals and groups to > start Meetups groups we could overcome some of the problems with just paying > for Meetup groups. > > > > -- > Clifford > > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
