contrapunctus ✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️<p>Another week, another <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> mapping party. <a href="https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/114850652948680682" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/114850652948680682</a></p><p>Incidentally, these take hours and hours to organize and publicize, so if anyone fancies supporting me on my Liberapay, please do so. I’m unemployed and I’d like to continue hosting these. <a href="http://liberapay.com/contrapunctus/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://liberapay.com/contrapunctus/</a></p><p>Since we had only 4 or 5 people turning up within the first 15 minutes of the party, it seemed that we would not have a lot of participants…but then, people gradually trickled in until we had 11!</p><p>A number of our regular co-organizers/mentors were away in other lands - one in Bihar, another in Brest, France - and another one was not feeling well. This too affected the headcount and contributions.</p><p>That aside, there’s a bit of good news. I just realized that the new approach - that of going through a fixed rotation of zones, and trying to get <em>locals</em> to join their <em>local events</em> instead of trying to get <em>people all over Delhi</em> to join <em>each event</em> - is working.</p><p>I knew a number of people from the Ghaziabad area who long wanted to attend, but found traveling to Delhi too tedious. They were finally able to attend. Indeed, 7 of the 11 participants were new mappers!</p><p>Here’s hoping to an even better turnout in our <a href="https://osmcal.org/?in=India" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">upcoming mapping parties.</a></p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/delhi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Delhi</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/india" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#India</a></p>