On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Al Haraka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On a kind of related note, can anyone report how effective the Project >> of the Week initiative is? >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week > > Funny you should ask. > > Trackability isn't the main goal for PotW, but is a point of interest > for Project of the Month. The first PotM is in progress now. We'll > have graphs showing contributions. For example: > > http://weait.com/osmwaterpt-month.png > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Sep_29
First off, thanks for appropriately changing the thread subject line. This is very cool, and I am glad you responded, Richard! > The current Project of the Week (Use Potlatch2 and give feedback) has > ancedotal indications of success; The Potlatch2 developers say they > are getting more feedback. \o/ Yay! I would hope so. I just tried it myself just because of that. I will try to get more involved in both weekly and monthly projects from now on. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Oct_13 > > I think I'm pretty stern on judging the success of PotW and PotM. For > improvement, I'd like to see more participation on all levels; > - I'd like to see more folks submitting complete projects ready for > publishing. > - I'd like to see more folks adding PotW/M to their regular editing. > - I'd like to see more discussion and suggestions on the proposals page. > > But I know that I can't always have everything that I'd like. ;-) I think these are all great ideas. For the benefit of the list, what do you see as a complete project? I will try to add proposals if I can think of some, and work on the obvious points like participating. Haha. As the Stones said, if you try sometimes . . . > Things I like about PotW/M: > - I think it is fantastic that some PotW/M get translated into other > languages. > - It's great that suggestions from the community lead to Project of the Month. > > And it's nice that you are asking. Thanks. :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
