[California] Fwd: March Mapping Madness: Help Organize A Mapping Event near you!

[Michele Tobias]

Hi OSGeo California members,
I thought you might be interested in this balloon mapping event that 
could be going on near you next month brought to you by the Public 
Laboratory for Open Technology and Science.

If you're in northern California, you may have a workshop fairly close 
to you.  On campus at UC Davis there seems to be growing interest in 
having a workshop at Davis.  I'm trying to get an idea of how many would 
come to one in Davis, so send me a quick email if you think you might 
want to come.  If there's enough interest, I'll organize a workshop.

best,
Michele

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Subject: 	March Mapping Madness: Help Organize A Mapping Event near you!
Date: 	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:09:25 -0500
From: 	sara wylie <sara at publiclaboratory.org>
Reply-To: 	publiclaboratory at googlegroups.com
To: 	grassrootsmapping at googlegroups.com, publiclaboratory at googlegroups.com



Hi all,

Interested in helping to lead a Grassroots Mapping Workshop in your area?

Based on the success of the kickstarter there are 300+ balloon mappers 
who will be getting started with Grassroots Mapping over the next month. 
  We thought why not make an event of it and plan our own version of 
March Madness to hold local training events and workshop anywhere 
Balloon Mappers are able to congregate?

To facilitate this process we've started a March Mapping Madness 
<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/march-mapping-madness> Wiki Page 
(http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/march-mapping-madness). If you are 
interested in participating in or helping to organize one of these 
events (or in coordinating the events generally) please add you name and 
email to that page!  We are also going to be organizing a set of online 
sessions focused on skill building with MapKnitter, our map making 
software, that anyone is welcome to participate in.

Based on where we are sending balloon mapping kits, we are hoping to 
have workshops in at least these areas:

*Austin, TX*

*Boston, MA**
*

*Chicago, IL*

*Washington D.C.*

*Philadelphia, PA*

*Los Angles, CA*

*San Francisco, CA*

*Seattle, WA*

*North Carolina*

*Toronto*

*Berlin*

*Zurich*

*Somewhere in the Netherlands*

*Portland, OR*

*Asheville, NC - already planned for *March 31st - Saturday 10 AM

*And a Virtual meeting for those outside of these areas.*

PLOTS staff will help organizers find locations to map, get kits and 
helium together as well as help set up wiki pages for each local site 
like the one occurring in the New York region: 
http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/march-mapping-madness-ny-nj-ct

Looking forward to making this a month of Balloon Flying, Shutter 
Snapping, Image Stitching, Mapping Madness!

Go team!

PLOTS staff


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