Inspired by this discussion, I've written up a blog post on why we at the
OSM-US chapter love calling editathons:
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/
Like I mentioned before, I think they're a great tool to create an excuse
or an impulse for people around the US to get together in
On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Clifford Snow wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
The local dimension of OpenStreetMap was exactly why OSM US decided to do
#editathons. There's one happening this weekend, join us.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com wrote:
We had excellent turnout yesterday in San Francisco with almost 20 people
in Code for America's Ben Franklin room. We got a lot of newcomers who had
attended the June SOTM and were interested in contributing, a near 50/50
Hi Clifford,
Wow--thanks for sharing those stats! They are really interesting!
I just took a look at the link you shared and it looks like we're seeing
the number of mappers contributing on any given day. Do you know if it's
possible to find the number of mappers contributing in a week or even
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Kathleen Danielson
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, I think that a goal of increasing active mappers is really
smart-- perhaps we could set annual or quarterly targets for ourselves?
Tracking and publicizing the data monthly should be step 1.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
This doesn't have to wait for funding, or permission! There are
hundreds of OpenStreetMap ambassadors reading this list, right now.
Are you saying that you are satisfied with the number of active US mappers?
Really?
+1 to just get going in your city or in your community. Let nothing stop
you.
The local dimension of OpenStreetMap was exactly why OSM US decided to do
#editathons. There's one happening this weekend, join us.
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/
Well I've been promoting this
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
[ ... ]
As I envision an OSM Ambassador program, the goals would be similar to
Fedora[1],
Organize OSM participation at events
Demonstrate OSM to the public
Promote OSM at local events with talks, handouts and
Am 19.07.2013 12:06, schrieb Kathleen Danielson:
Hi Clifford,
Wow--thanks for sharing those stats! They are really interesting!
I just took a look at the link you shared and it looks like we're
seeing the number of mappers contributing on any given day. Do you
know if it's possible to
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
The local dimension of OpenStreetMap was exactly why OSM US decided to do
#editathons. There's one happening this weekend, join us.
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/july-summer-editathon/
Our group is signed up. (Seattle)
On 07/19/2013 11:06 AM, Kathleen Danielson wrote:
Kai-- those are some really great ideas around publicity!
Personally, I think we'd need a dedicated PR person on staff to fully
accomplish this. That's not really feasible in the near term, though--
so maybe we should think about ways that we
Clifford Snow wrote
I'll start by just listing a few of my thoughts:
We need publicity!
Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and should
try and work on as a group. Looking at the data, it is clear that when ever
there was significant publicity on OSM, the number
Kai-- those are some really great ideas around publicity!
Personally, I think we'd need a dedicated PR person on staff to fully
accomplish this. That's not really feasible in the near term, though-- so
maybe we should think about ways that we can break that down into
volunteer-sized tasks? This
Clifford Snow wrote:
We need publicity!
Harry Wood is trying to recruit more volunteers for the Communication
Working Group. You can e-mail him on o...@harrywood.co.uk .
cheers
Richard
--
View this message in context:
Clifford, of your 4 ideas only getting coverage in mainstream press would
probably be effective.
Hey folks, just a quick note to be mindful of the way we're responding to
each other's ideas, and to be especially careful since as we all know,
tone is easily misread online.
(And thanks to Jason
Hello,
Most people would agree that we don't have nearly enough people mapping.
Clearly, transcending our early adopter types of GIS and open source
software people will be needed. However, effective strategies for on
boarding the next million people are going to be very different than what
was
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:
We need publicity!
Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and should
try and work on as a group.
I wish this was the case, but it's not. I'll elaborate.
Looking at the data, it is clear that
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
This doesn't have to wait for funding, or permission! There are
hundreds of OpenStreetMap ambassadors reading this list, right now.
Are
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:
We need publicity!
Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and
should
try and work on as a group.
I wish this
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
We need publicity!
Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and
should
try and work on as a group.
snip
When I was in DC, t the Washington Post to covered MappingDC. The
Washington
Serge Wroclawski writes:
The real lesson of the ambassador program was that running mapping
parties in other cities than your own results in press (sometimes),
results in various size turnout, but has no track record of creating
sustainable community.
Except for MappingDC, for which you
Maybe we need to ask people, what got them interested in OSM and what keeps
them active. Maybe one of the activities we should undertake is to collect
that data to help develop plans go active mappers.
I'll jump in on this quickly, I first saw OSM as a background in Depiction
I agree that getting mom pop websites to use OSM will help a lot in getting
people aware of of the project and primed to assist. But that is not possible
now. There are two things needed for any mom pop site to use OSM:
1. Some quick, easy no hassle way to embed a slippery map.
2. Routing
Hello all,
While I agree with Clifford that more publicity is essential
to grow the organization, another strategy that might be effective is
to work through organizations that could have a use for the maps or
for mapping as a teaching exercise. We don't have direct access to
large
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
Similarly, when the Washington Post covered the local DC hackerspace,
we had two people stop in at the space (only two!) and neither of them
joined.
I'm not sure that two events are enough data points to state that
On 07/19/2013 09:57 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
Similarly, when the Washington Post covered the local DC hackerspace,
we had two people stop in at the space (only two!) and neither of them
joined.
I'm not sure
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that is partly due to a failure of tools and expectations. Too
many tools are still geared towards the initial large scale acquisition
of data. There indeed you will likely have a pattern of a few
contributors
We have over 200 mappers contributing to OSM in the US driving us to second
place, but way behind Germany. Look at OSM Stats for the details.
http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries
Second place is good, but I wonder what we could be if we made it our goal
to increase the
Clifford Snow writes:
I'd like to suggest that we adopt a goal of increasing the number of active
mappers in the US. I'm not sure how we accomplish it, but I'd like
to solicit suggestions and feedback.
Use of OSM data drives editing of OSM data, as long as people know
it's editable. We
If someone can hook me up with a logo polo and/or a car sign or two, I
wouldn't mind working the shirt into my work rotation, and my car makes it
all over Oklahoma. 386 miles today alone, average around 150 miles a day.
Occasionally makes longer trips closer to the panhandle, Dallas metro,
into
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