Dan,
You're right, it went extremely well.
I don't know if Harry is able to get contact information for the
attendees from bookings, but it would be interesting to ask them where
they heard about the event. We could also do with feedback - did we meet
their expectations?
I think most, if not all, of the newcomers were working part of the time
on http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/459 & I'm planning to contact who I can
through that task, providing further information. Although it went
extremely well, I felt as if we only scratched the surface in terms of
information provided - needed a handout at the end, but who has time to
prepare them! I'll send them links to the main learning pages in my message.
The field papers tasks for
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lubumbashi#Data_table made an
interesting change from the normal mapping & I'd like to see more of
this type of thing available, as it provides a little variety. I think
the system should be refined slightly;
* If the only thing being added is road names, then less sheets are
needed in the atlas (on occasion it took a long time for a page to
load, and there was very little to do when it did).
* If you zoom out to find the page you have just loaded, you will
never find it as they are only visible at the lower zoom levels! -
took me a while to find this out, and it needs adding to the info
somewhere (LearnOSM & wiki for future jobs)
* Instead of a written sheet of paper with road names, perhaps a
simple .txt file with them typed could be provided, which would
overcome the potential problem with accents & special characters as
you could just copy & paste.
* Is somebody checking that there is nothing outstanding?
Thanks are owed to a great many people who made the day such a success.
I don't know many names, so it's better if I just leave it as a general
thanks.
Nice picture in the OSM main page - just glad the pizza I dropped down
my shirt is not visible!
Nick
Volunteer 'Tallguy' for
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy
Treasurer, website & Bonus Ball admin for
http://www.6thswanleyscouts.org.uk/ ([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>)
On 06/05/14 09:58, Dan S wrote:
Hi all,
I thought the London HOT Congo session went really well! Aside from
the actual mapping, the extremely important thing that we did was (a)
attract (b) inspire (c) teach, plenty of newcomers. Reflecting on
that:
(a) How did we attract so many newcomers, to a "non-CNN" need, on a
bank holiday? Did something special happen? I know a couple of people
mentioned MapAction, and a couple of people mentioned ICT 4
Development. I guess those kind of *non-osm* networks are the ideal
places to circulate info about future events like this.
(b) Ivan from MSF was really inspirational in motivating people. I
myself don't have those kind of contacts, and obviously it's only
people from agencies who positively want HOT to help them who can fill
that first-person role, but, well, I guess keep an eye out for more
Ivans?
Also, the physical Field Papers that Jorieke brought over from DRC
had a motivational presence too. And so would the Skype connection to
DRC if it had worked!
(c) The format worked well for teaching people - the building-tracing
job was simple enough to grasp, the Field Papers job was available for
keen learners (some newcomers did join in on it), and Nick and I were
useful helping the newcomers one-to-one (as were others of course, ad
hoc).
Congrats to Harry on the organisation -
Best
Dan
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