On 29/06/2016 19:57, Rob Nickerson wrote:
So here is my 100 day plan (the first general meeting is a given so not
included here):
1. Create a portal for discussion and decision making.
I hate to tell you but talk-gb sucks. In fact mailing lists in general
suck. They work well for techy people but don't appeal to Aunty Jane. If
we want to expand our community beyond our current group we need to
appeal to a less techy audience. Several months ago I looked at all
sorts of platforms many of which are great for discussions and sharing
info (e.g. slack, fleep, gitter, facebook) but very few are good for
group decision making. If we want this project to be a group one (and we
should) rather than a director project then a decision making tool will
help.
I recommend Loomio and it is therefore my first 100 day task. We can
host on their site (like the OSMF do) or self host.
Any volunteers for self hosting? See:
https://github.com/loomio/loomio-deploy
I will set a group up in a few days unless somebody offers to deploy to
their server.
2. Run a competition for ideas (with money to pay for their implementation)
Once a discussion and decision making tool has been set up lets share
ideas. Give a certain amount of time and then pick a winner! The
following are essentially my suggestions to such a competition.
3. Website
We need to start thinking about our website. Whatever we develop has to
cover off our objectives. A big front page map (like openstreetmap.org
<http://openstreetmap.org>) will not in my opinion do that. I prefer a
website such as http://switch2osm.org , http://openstreetmap.de/ , or
http://mappa-mercia.org
Do others agree?
4. Promote the quarterly projects
We've seen that these can be successful but we need a crack team of
people to help promote these. Let's set up such a team.
5. Regional champions
We need to spread the work. If we could have a Chairperson committed to
OSM UK as their day job then great. If not, then let's split the work
and build a community of regional champions.
6. Get a newsletter going
We've set one of these up for State of the Map (via mailchimp) and now
have over 500 people subscribed. Communication requires ongoing work but
I'd put it in the list of top few tasks.
7. Buy some equipment and loan it out.
OSM previously loaned out GPS devices. We could do the same but expand
it to GoPro cameras (for mapillary style mapping), laser distance
measuring devices (useful for building heights), etc..
Regards,
*Rob*
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I agree with Rob. Maillists are terrible. For all the good which OSGB
does, outreach is certainly not a mailchimp strength.
I still believe that a community blog is the way forward at this stage.
There are poll and mail widgets on blogger or wordpress. I personally
prefer blogger as it is already hosted but we can also host a free
wordpress blog on OpenShift. We can also host a wiki but do we have
enough content to justify a wiki. This is probably something for further
down the line. Static websites are good for companies but not really for
a community organisation.
There are poll and mail list widgets on blogger. Other javascript
widgets are also available.
I actually just created a poll for the most suitable web platform for OSMUK.
- Community Blog (blogger)
- Static Webpage
- Wiki
- Loomio
- Slack (i don't really get it)
- Maillist (talk-gb)
Have a look and vote on
https://osmuk.blogspot.co.uk/
Please drop me a mail if you want to be a moderator and post stuff. It
would be nice if people give it a try and post some information. Rob,
can you post your roadmap please?
Being tied up with work myself right now but plan to do a post about the
OSM projects my company is currently doing.
I can also sort out a maillist widget for OSMUK next week.
Best,
Dennis
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