Hi List,
This weekend at the Ontario LinuxFest, I met Richard Weait, who is one of the organizers behind the LinuxFest. His $dayjob, as it turns out is to work as a Community Manager for OpenStreetMap, and he is responsible for the NA Northeast region. In two weeks, he is looking to do a mapping party in Pittsburgh, and he asked for local help in organising the local details, namely, marketing and providing good advice on a decent central location.
I am curious if the rest of the Ambassadors are willing to help out here too. Would it be a good idea, and are you, the Ambassadors willing, to offer up our help in providing local resources? This means I will point Richard to our Ambassadors roster, and suggest that he plan mapping parties where there are Fedora presences. He would feel free to contact anyone who is an Ambassador to ask for pointers on how to market, where to run, and how to run a mapping party in that local region. One of the OpenStreetMap guys would come and run the actual party, so I would imagine it wouldn't be more than just handling a few emails and maybe an hour of contacting a local venue (local cafes are excellent) to get the necessary permissions.
Is this something that has some potential within the Fedora Ambassadors?
-Yaakov
Hi,
Is this something that has some potential within the Fedora Ambassadors?
I'm currently developing an application using OSM, so yes, I'm totally interested in it !
However, I'm curious, what is a "mapping party" ? How is it run ?
Anyway, count me in, as much as my agenda permits it :)
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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) French Fedora Ambassador
---------- "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) bochecha@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi,
Is this something that has some potential within the Fedora Ambassadors?
I'm currently developing an application using OSM, so yes, I'm totally interested in it !
However, I'm curious, what is a "mapping party" ? How is it run ?
Anyway, count me in, as much as my agenda permits it :)
Sounds awesome. I'll be sure to let the OSM guys know about this.
I would still like to know, as a whole, can i recommend Fedora Ambassadors to OSM in any official capacity, or is there by and large a total lack of interest in helping out another community?
-Yaakov
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) bochecha@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi,
Is this something that has some potential within the Fedora Ambassadors?
I'm currently developing an application using OSM, so yes, I'm totally interested in it !
However, I'm curious, what is a "mapping party" ? How is it run ?
Anyway, count me in, as much as my agenda permits it :)
Sounds awesome. I'll be sure to let the OSM guys know about this.
I would still like to know, as a whole, can i recommend Fedora Ambassadors to OSM in any official capacity, or is there by and large a total lack of interest in helping out another community?
-Yaakov
Yaakov,
My initial reaction is "Cool - I'd love to do this" quickly followed by 'where will I find the time?'. The upcoming release has a lot of people heavily committed to getting stuff pushed out. That said - post-release this is something I think we could look at more seriously.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:54 PM, David Nalley david@gnsa.us wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) bochecha@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi,
Is this something that has some potential within the Fedora Ambassadors?
I'm currently developing an application using OSM, so yes, I'm totally interested in it !
However, I'm curious, what is a "mapping party" ? How is it run ?
Anyway, count me in, as much as my agenda permits it :)
Sounds awesome. I'll be sure to let the OSM guys know about this.
I would still like to know, as a whole, can i recommend Fedora Ambassadors to OSM in any official capacity, or is there by and large a total lack of interest in helping out another community?
-Yaakov
Yaakov,
My initial reaction is "Cool - I'd love to do this" quickly followed by 'where will I find the time?'. The upcoming release has a lot of people heavily committed to getting stuff pushed out. That said - post-release this is something I think we could look at more seriously.
I'm definitely thinking long term.
-Yaakov
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