Re: [Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

[Toby Murray]

Well there was already significant work done on a "groups" feature
that would have let users opt in to location-specific groups. But it
never got a final push to completion. The work and discussion
surrounding it are in a GitHub pull request:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/297

Toby

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Russ Nelson  wrote:
> Jonathan Schleuss writes:
>  > Is there a way to email multiple users at once?
>
> Yes and no. I created a hack to mail to geolocated OSM users, but I
> feel disinclined to share that. Of course the board of directors can
> authorize the sysadmins to send bulk email, but that happens only
> rarely.
>
> I designed a system for communicating with users, but never
> implemented it. Since it's opt-in, it's not spam. The idea is simple:
> allow people to receive notices posted via the OSM user interface to a
> particular lat/lon. They do so by adding one or more bounding boxes
> for their areas of interest to their OSM profile. If the notice's
> location falls in their bounding box, they get the notice in their OSM
> Inbox.  Not hard to implement if you know or want to learn
> Ruby. Neither of those applies to me.
>
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Re: [Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

[Russ Nelson]

Jonathan Schleuss writes:
 > Is there a way to email multiple users at once?

Yes and no. I created a hack to mail to geolocated OSM users, but I
feel disinclined to share that. Of course the board of directors can
authorize the sysadmins to send bulk email, but that happens only
rarely.

I designed a system for communicating with users, but never
implemented it. Since it's opt-in, it's not spam. The idea is simple:
allow people to receive notices posted via the OSM user interface to a
particular lat/lon. They do so by adding one or more bounding boxes
for their areas of interest to their OSM profile. If the notice's
location falls in their bounding box, they get the notice in their OSM
Inbox.  Not hard to implement if you know or want to learn
Ruby. Neither of those applies to me.

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Crynwr supports open source software
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213  | Sheepdog   

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Re: [Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

[Kevin Kenny]

I'd really not see OSM messaging turn into a vehicle for spam. I know
that's not what you're doing, but a multi-message facility would surely be
abused that way.

The best thing I can think of off the top of my head. is to have the admins
of lists.openstreetmap.org create a mailing list for your local group,
along the lines of talk-us-newyork (but perhaps even more local).

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Jonathan Schleuss  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to email multiple users at once? Prior to each local event
> I copy/paste a markdown file into openstreetmap.org over and over again
> to contact local mappers. It would save me so much time to email them all
> at once. Is there anyway to do that? Or does anyone have tips for
> other local organizers?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon Schleuss
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[Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

[Jonathan Schleuss]

Hi all,

Is there a way to email multiple users at once? Prior to each local event I 
copy/paste a markdown file into openstreetmap.org over and over again to 
contact local mappers. It would save me so much time to email them all at once. 
Is there anyway to do that? Or does anyone have tips for other local organizers?

Thanks,
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