Just thought I'd dump them here..

* Last weekend, March 5, in Łódź, Poland we celebrated the first meeting of Polish openstreetmappers bigger than 5 people (yes, we're a little bheind but we're getting there) and at the same time we have formally incorporated the local OpenStreetMap Association which may become a OSMF local chapter at some point in the future but in the first place will help us in contacting local institutions, funding local projects, being a point of contact for local companies etc. The association will become fully legally registered in a month or two. We talked to the press, held a wanna-be mapping party and had a couple of interesting presentations including one by a commercial osm-based navigation vendor. User:tomianek has been selected as the board chairman among other reasons due to his good relations with some local institutions. I was elected the treasurer. Personally I'm a little disappointed with all the stress on promotion, formal contacts and funding, and lack of stress on actual mapping projects.

* Schuyler Erle announced on the OpenAerialMap oam-talk mailing list that he and Chris Schmidt joined MapQuest with the specific goal of working on rebooting OAM and that initial results can be expected as soon as in a couple of weeks. Yay!

* Also, Jeffrey Warren started a series of interviews with grassrootsmappers at the Grassrootsmapping.org/PublicLaboratory blogs, see http://publiclaboratory.org/report/mapper-interview-dawn-mckinney

* Also, Spanish mappers imported Corine Land Cover forests polygons and Slovakia mappers are in the process of importing CLC / Urban Atlas data.