Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-08-01 Thread Dan S
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,

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-28 Thread Brian Prangle
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

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-28 Thread Dan S
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

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-27 Thread Dan S
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

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-27 Thread Rob Nickerson
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

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-27 Thread Grant Slater
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:

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-27 Thread Dan S
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