I have watched a lot of TED talks online, and I think that HOT and MissingMaps are ideal topics for TED, and it would be great exposure for the projects.
Mike On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Anders Anker-Rasch <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm surprised that a TED-talk about HOT, or MissingMaps for that matter, > hasn't been done already. Definitely about time to draw more attention to the > worldwide effort. The smaller TEDx (independently organized events) should be > targeted with presentations, as they are probably easier to get into. > > I do short presentations about the concept of HOT / MissingMaps every 14 days > now for our group of Engineers Without Borders, and the potential for growth > in both supporters and new mappers are enormous. > > mvh/best regards, > Anders Anker-Rasch > [image: View Anders Anker-Rasch's LinkedIn profile] View Anders Anker-Rasch's > profile <http://no.linkedin.com/pub/anders-anker-rasch/36/27b/6a5> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/anders_ar > > > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 08:06:38 -0700 > From: Russell Deffner <[email protected]> > To: "'Mike Thompson'" <[email protected]> > Cc: 'communications' <[email protected]>, 'hot' > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HOT] Communications Outreach > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Mike, > > > > Actually yes, several HOTties (that I know of) have done radio and other new > interviews over the last several years and probably many more that I don’t > know about. Not sure all ‘the good ones’ are all linked, but a good place to > do so is: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hot#HOT_in_the_Media > > > > I also heard Steve’s interview and thought it was great, but as you probably > noticed the interviewer was driving the conversation (as well as getting > random callers to ask questions, which I thought Steve did a wonderful job > not knowing what might be asked). But, for now, the communication wg is more > about helping us (HOT) drive the conversation, on that same wiki-page linked > above (our main one) there are also slide-share and other material for anyone > looking to build a TED talk type presentation – although I don’t think anyone > has actually done an actual TED talk about HOT or even OSM for that matter. > But at least Kate and myself in the working group have done presentations > about HOT before, so we’d be happy to help folks prepare and/or look for > opportunities although the wg priorities are first just setting up some basic > groundwork for communication in general. > > > > Thanks for the input! > > =Russ > >
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