Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press
OK the press release is looking good, thanks Grant and hive mind! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit Now: if anyone has ideas of journalists who might be interested, please could you send me an email? Journalists who have written before about OSM, or journalists in mainstream media who you think might like it. Email me offlist to avoid deluging everyone. Send me their contact details, or if you prefer to make the contact yourself then just let me know and I'll send the tidied-up press release PDF to you for forwarding. Dan 2014-07-28 9:55 GMT+01:00 Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com: You are! Or someone else. :) Are you in a position to help? Please add target press to the document if you have any suggestions. I wonder if UCL press office would be interested, since Steve Coast was at UCL when it started, and UCL has been supportive of OSM over the years. Is there a UCL+OSM person who might chat to their press office? Dan 2014-07-28 9:49 GMT+01:00 Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com: Who's going to draw up the target list of press platforms to send this to and more importantly discover the correct contact? Regards Brian On 27 July 2014 23:20, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Grant, Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very bold. I've changed the tone to how press releases are normally written (essentially, written as if it was a newspaper article by a third party unconnected with osm), and I've even changed two of the paragraphs to appear as verbal quotes from you. I hope that's OK - it may seem a weird thing to do but it's good for press releases, helps give some life to the text and journalists would reuse the quote to give some life to the article. Can anyone help to update the stats please? We have raw stats like number of users, number of ways, but more interesting for journalists would be kilometres of roads etc - see some of the notes in that document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Dan 2014-07-27 13:55 GMT+01:00 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: Hi All, OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Kind regards, Grant On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London is the birthplace of OSM. A couple of ideas: * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque to each place to commemorate its place in history. To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something photogenic. So let's get more creative... * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? Dan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press
Who's going to draw up the target list of press platforms to send this to and more importantly discover the correct contact? Regards Brian On 27 July 2014 23:20, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Grant, Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very bold. I've changed the tone to how press releases are normally written (essentially, written as if it was a newspaper article by a third party unconnected with osm), and I've even changed two of the paragraphs to appear as verbal quotes from you. I hope that's OK - it may seem a weird thing to do but it's good for press releases, helps give some life to the text and journalists would reuse the quote to give some life to the article. Can anyone help to update the stats please? We have raw stats like number of users, number of ways, but more interesting for journalists would be kilometres of roads etc - see some of the notes in that document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Dan 2014-07-27 13:55 GMT+01:00 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: Hi All, OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Kind regards, Grant On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London is the birthplace of OSM. A couple of ideas: * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque to each place to commemorate its place in history. To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something photogenic. So let's get more creative... * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? Dan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press
You are! Or someone else. :) Are you in a position to help? Please add target press to the document if you have any suggestions. I wonder if UCL press office would be interested, since Steve Coast was at UCL when it started, and UCL has been supportive of OSM over the years. Is there a UCL+OSM person who might chat to their press office? Dan 2014-07-28 9:49 GMT+01:00 Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com: Who's going to draw up the target list of press platforms to send this to and more importantly discover the correct contact? Regards Brian On 27 July 2014 23:20, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Grant, Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very bold. I've changed the tone to how press releases are normally written (essentially, written as if it was a newspaper article by a third party unconnected with osm), and I've even changed two of the paragraphs to appear as verbal quotes from you. I hope that's OK - it may seem a weird thing to do but it's good for press releases, helps give some life to the text and journalists would reuse the quote to give some life to the article. Can anyone help to update the stats please? We have raw stats like number of users, number of ways, but more interesting for journalists would be kilometres of roads etc - see some of the notes in that document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Dan 2014-07-27 13:55 GMT+01:00 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: Hi All, OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Kind regards, Grant On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London is the birthplace of OSM. A couple of ideas: * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque to each place to commemorate its place in history. To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something photogenic. So let's get more creative... * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? Dan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press
This is looking like a no. So let's just do our own celebrations without other people watching :) Dan 2014-07-23 21:23 GMT+01:00 Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com: Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London is the birthplace of OSM. A couple of ideas: * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque to each place to commemorate its place in history. To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something photogenic. So let's get more creative... * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? Dan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press
Dan, We're using our Birmingham event as a way to target new contributors rather than the press. Given that we got something on local news and radio during SOTM, we'd probably struggle to get any more airtime so soon. As you say it has to be a photogenic event. I'm sure the London group could do photogenic if that was what they wanted. Alternatively think about the type of thing you struggle to map and target groups that will have more knowledge of those things. Rob ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press
Hi All, OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Kind regards, Grant On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London is the birthplace of OSM. A couple of ideas: * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque to each place to commemorate its place in history. To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something photogenic. So let's get more creative... * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? Dan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press
Grant, Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very bold. I've changed the tone to how press releases are normally written (essentially, written as if it was a newspaper article by a third party unconnected with osm), and I've even changed two of the paragraphs to appear as verbal quotes from you. I hope that's OK - it may seem a weird thing to do but it's good for press releases, helps give some life to the text and journalists would reuse the quote to give some life to the article. Can anyone help to update the stats please? We have raw stats like number of users, number of ways, but more interesting for journalists would be kilometres of roads etc - see some of the notes in that document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Dan 2014-07-27 13:55 GMT+01:00 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com: Hi All, OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Kind regards, Grant On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London is the birthplace of OSM. A couple of ideas: * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque to each place to commemorate its place in history. To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something photogenic. So let's get more creative... * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas than me? Dan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
