You are! Or someone else. :) Are you in a position to help? Please add target press to the document if you have any suggestions.
I wonder if UCL press office would be interested, since Steve Coast was at UCL when it started, and UCL has been supportive of OSM over the years. Is there a UCL+OSM person who might chat to their press office? Dan 2014-07-28 9:49 GMT+01:00 Brian Prangle <[email protected]>: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
