On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Ed Loach <e...@loach.me.uk> wrote: > Parveen Arora wrote: >> Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day, >> Can't we >> declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday? > > Kenneth replied: > >> that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating >> this >> mission critical point. > > Well let mine be the next :) > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History > suggests either 9th August (anniversary of domain name being > registered) or 20th August (Steve's presentation at EuroFOO) are > worthy candidates. > > As presumably though the idea predated registering the domain name, > I'd argue that the 9th August would be the obvious choice of > something to base anniversaries on.
Fair enough. I suggest that we plan ahead for an "official" Birthday week around Thursday, 09 August *2012*, and go with 20 August this year to allow more planning time. I made a wiki page for this yesterday because I am impatient and love to throw parties. ;-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_7th_Anniversary_Birthday_party Toronto is already on the list. Feel free to a) join us here, or b) throw your own local OSM Birthday bash. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk