> On 6 Jun 2015, at 10:29, Milo van der Linden <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is my personal opinion that the level of expertise is less important then > the motivation for people to participate and their abbility to adapt. As an > example; What is better, a geospatial expert that is conceited or even cocky > or a new mapper that has a lot of time and is eager to learn?
As a random data point, based on my review of contribution data: - during Haiyan/Yolanda, 30% of the contributors had no prior OSM edits before their first HOT edit - Ebola response: 50% - Missing Maps projects (since November): 75%. I think it’s safe to assume that as HOT grows even further this number will remain high, particularly for high-profile initiatives. For many contributors, HOT will be the entry-point for OSM mapping: they don’t necessarily come because they want to map, they come because they want to help out. However there’s certainly a discussion to be had about where these newcomers should best be routed in the very beginning. Lots of great ideas in this thread! m. _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
