Who's going to draw up the target list of press platforms to send this to and more importantly discover the correct contact?
Regards Brian On 27 July 2014 23:20, Dan S <[email protected]> wrote: > Grant, > > Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very > bold. I've changed the tone to how press releases are normally written > (essentially, written as if it was a newspaper article by a third > party unconnected with osm), and I've even changed two of the > paragraphs to appear as verbal quotes from you. I hope that's OK - it > may seem a weird thing to do but it's good for press releases, helps > give some life to the text and journalists would reuse the quote to > give some life to the article. > > Can anyone help to update the stats please? We have "raw" stats like > number of users, number of ways, but more interesting for journalists > would be "kilometres of roads" etc - see some of the notes in that > document: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing > > Dan > > 2014-07-27 13:55 GMT+01:00 Grant Slater <[email protected]>: > > Hi All, > > > > OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: > > Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Grant > > > > > > On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we > >> should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press > >> coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis > >> world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story. > >> > >> There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and > >> that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event, > >> perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might > >> appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London > >> is the birthplace of OSM. > >> > >> A couple of ideas: > >> > >> * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS > >> track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap) > >> > >> * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first > >> ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque > >> to each place to commemorate its place in history. > >> > >> To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can > >> write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something > >> photogenic. So let's get more creative... > >> > >> * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in > >> London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake! > >> > >> * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale... > >> > >> Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas > than me? > >> > >> Dan > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-GB mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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