Working with OpenStreetMap

[Yaakov Nemoy]

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

[Mathieu Bridon]

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

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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
 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

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Yaakov Nemoy  wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
>  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.

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:54 PM, David Nalley  wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Yaakov Nemoy  wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
> >  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