Nice summary Erwin! From the original report in G+, one participant said: "less talk, more fieldwork". I agree, sometimes, we are too eager to share our personal mapping experience only to loose time for them to experience it on their own.
cheers, Maning Sambale (mobile) On Jun 20, 2015 10:56 AM, "Erwin Olario" <gov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note: The original, and unabridged version of this message is a G+ post > [0]. > > > Dear everyone, > > If you are monitoring #OpenStreetMap changesets from the #Philippines , > you may have noticed a common changeset comment from the past few days. > > The ResultMaps from neis-one.org report the following outcomes for > #osmfeu2015 [1] > Information for #osmfeu2015 > Number of OSM Contributors: 43 > Number of Map Changes: 30,218 > Total number of Changesets: 1,376 > > The FEU Institute of Technology [1] and the the Map the Philippines > initiative of Ms. Celina Agaton [2] recently concluded a training workshop > for FEU Tech affiliates (I.T. and engineering students and faculty) . Also > with +Celina Agaton are some of AidData Summer Fellows who are in the > Philippines to work along with Celina's number of mapping initiatives. Amy, > Daniella, Emily, Lu and Prabesh [4]. Some OSM-PH mappers participated as > facilitators: +Feye Andal (@ feyeandal) +Julius Bañgate (@ jmbangate), > +Dianne Bencito (@dichapabe), +Rally de Leon (@rally) and myself,@GOwin. > > At the end of the event, we asked for voluntary participants for an > anonymous survey and over-all, the participants reported to have had very > positive learning experience from the workshop. More than half of the > respondents expressed their interesting in doing more field mapping > activities. So, if you guys are planning any mapping parties soon, you know > where to find them. > > And if you find new edits in your area, and they happen to be from the > #osmfeu2015 guys, please be gentle with them. For now. :D > > The small group discussions had been interesting for me, especially with > those who are now considering #OpenSource data from #OpenStreetMap for > their own academic or personal projects. I collected baseline contributor > data from this workshop and hope to evaluate the effectiveness of the > engagement a few months down the road. If any of you are interested in this > kind of thing, let me know how we can work together. > > We were told that almost a hundred people signed up for the activity. > Personally, I am happy to know that there are that many people who find the > topic interesting. However, I'm also glad that we didn't get as much > participants because we would have had a rough time managing the class > because there weren't enough experienced mappers who can help facilitate > and direct small group discussions. > > For the closing activities, we came up with a few interesting awards based > on contributor metrics: The Map-chine (for the participant who made the > most number of edits during the workshop), The Beast Mapper (for the > participant who contributed the most varied type of features, and the JOSM > Padawan (for the participant who made the most number of edits using JOSM). > > I took a few snaps [5] but expect the workshop organizers to release their > official photos soon. :) > > Many thanks to the organizers, the host, and to fellow participants who > made this possible. > > [0] https://plus.google.com/+WinOlario/posts/2bw56neXHC3 > [1] > http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=osmfeu2015#5/13.753/122.124 > [2] http://www.feutech.edu.ph/ > [3] http://aiddata.org/aiddata-summer-fellows > [4] https://goo.gl/photos/b7sGziWhrmqJdDCVA > > Cheers, > > > *Erwin Olario* > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > » email: erwin@ <er...@ngnuity.net>*n**gnu**IT**y**.**net* > <http://ngnuity.net/> | gov...@gmail.com > » mobile: (PHL): +63 908 817 2013 > » OpenPGP key: 3A93D56B | 5D42 7CCB 8827 9046 1ACB 0B94 63A4 81CE 3A93 > D56B > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > >
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