200 is indeed incredible and we wouldn't have been able to handle 80 people in one location or the corresponding 500 in all 7 locations at the moment. We still need to grow into this and this was a great learning experience already as it was.
Jo 2016-04-17 22:43 GMT+02:00 joost schouppe <[email protected]>: > Yes, Marc, you did great. I really liked the vrt clip actually. > > At the VUB, we knew full well the VTM was coming, but I didn't think for a > second about how we should shape their message. I did talk to them quite a > bit, but they didn't ask to interview me. They did interview the professor, > and that seemed good to me: one of "ours" and one of "theirs" having a > prime time moment. How on earth they think Google has anything to do with > the project - you can't imagine how people think, I guess. > Everything I heard sounded good to me at the time though. We had already > seen the vrt clip, so honestly I was expecting them to do a copy-paste of > that clip. > > Anyway I don't think any of us expected exposure of this magnitude, so we > never actually took a minute to think about it. Maybe of some more people > would have joined the organization, someone would have thought of that :) > > The reason VTM does show the Google Earth logo is probably that they have > a standard setup they use everyday and they know they have to do that. They > actually added that thing as the image at the tasking manager didn't cover > all the area being mapped as it was split over three tasks. > > As was said here, what has been aired has been aired. But I will send a > message to Belga - they should do some decent fact checking if everyone > else is just copy-pasting from them. > > Do add links to our work hackpad to any articles you may find. > https://hackpad.com/Missing-Maps-National-April-16th-6yr1qJEQoqq > > All in all a great learning opportunity for all of us I think - also in > how we fail in reaching people who would potentially absolutely love us. As > Jo said somewhere, it feels like 30 could have been 80 with more promotion. > Then again 200 mappers is incredible, IMHO. > > Joost > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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