Register today for Community Day 2025

We have the embed prepped to be in the blog post, I think I am just waiting for someone to merge the update. However, for now, here are…
@mwjones71 - The blog post has been updated with the embed of the Luma calendar. :clap:t2:

Newly added events - May 1st

This is the last update I will be doing for the week - I’m off tomorrow. I’m sure I will have more to update come Monday. :smiley:

I’d be keen to travel for a Brisbane / Gold Coast event if anyone steps up!

Also… May 24th is the day before Geek Pride Day and Towel Day - coincidence?

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I am happy to announce that we will meet in Bratislava.

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Right in the middle of business trip :cry:
By the way, Espoo is not in Switzerland but in Finland!

By the way, Espoo is not in Switzerland but in Finland!

:see_no_evil: fml :woman_facepalming:t2: Thank you, lol. Yet another silly American mistake. :sweat_smile: (Edited to add: lol, I put Finland for everywhere else except here! Womp. At least I didn’t make this mistake across all the platforms. :grimacing: )

I will have the latest list of events here shortly! Going through and catching up on socials right now, but we had 7 new events added over the weekend! :clap:t2:

Hello everyone,
A new appointment has been created!!
I’ll be waiting for you in Lyon (France) from 6:00 PM until the early hours!

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Newly added events - May 5th

(including the events shared in this thread by hosts since my last update)

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The hosts for the DC and Los Angeles events asked me to amplify their events again.

If you’re in either of those areas, the links to the meetups for each city are in the post I’m replying to. :relieved:

Apologies for this late update - I took PTO yesterday to chaperone my son’s class field trip and decided to round the week off with the rest of the meetups.

Newly added events - May 9th

(Edit: Corrected a country name.)

Thats nice list :slight_smile: So approximately 70 towns and 3000 people all around the World. That looks awesome. What about photos, video, live coverage? Where we may share all of this together?

What’s a towel day?

Towel Day commemorates Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

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It is also a day to remember Sir Terry Pratchett, and The People’s Revolution of Treaclemine Road.

Depicted in the 29th Discworld book, Night Watch, the revolution saw a people’s uprising that ended the reign of Lord Winder. On every May 25th thence, a group of the uprising’s survivors gather together to honor the casualties with lilacs and one hard-boiled egg.

In real life though, May 25 was also adopted by Pratchett’s fans to honor Pratchett’s struggles with Alzheimer’s Disease, and to also raise awareness of the disease. Fans do so by wearing lilacs on the day, just like in the books.

So keep your eyes open for a hoopy frood with a lilac towel…

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With the weather in the UK this year, all the lilac’s going to be finished by May 25. :pensive:

Luma does NOT credit OpenStreetMap as REQUIRED by license

I have been contributing to OSM for decades now, so it is very fustrating to see HA using a service which does not respect the OSM copyright and licence.

Their map does not show the REQUIRED attribution notice, nor does it show the ODbL:

This is not optional - it is part of the commitment of OpenStreetMap to open data, just as the Open Home Foundation has a goal of supporting open-source projects.
https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guidelines

How do I know? Zoom in and and I can see map detail that I myself cycled out to survey, map, and contribute.

This is not cool.

(I was thinking about an HA event in NE England, but won’t use a map service that doesn’t respect my FOSS work.)

You’re right, that’s not cool at all. Apologies for this oversight - while I did check into how they handled your data when signing up, this wasn’t something on my radar to catch.

I’ve sent their support an email to see if they can have this corrected, I’m hoping this is the fastest way to address this. They also have a GitHub org, but I’m not entirely sure what repo to open an issue on for this. To not clog up the thread, I’ll follow up with you privately to let you know how this goes, and edit this post so others know the status.