On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm doing a presentation at Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA in hopes > to gain new mappers. To help me with the presentation, I'd like to hear from > you. Below are some questions - answer all or just a few. > > What about OSM surprised you most? The amazing diversity in the interests of new contributors. I meet new OpenStreetMap contributors every month, and the interest that brings them in to meet us differ widely.
> What is should I absolutely not leave out of the presentation? 1) "Go outside and survey your neighbourhood. There is nothing better that you can do for OpenStreetMap, than behave as though you are tending a shared garden." 2) Time for questions. I have trouble with this because I like to talk. :-) 3) "It's Fun. It's Free. You can help." One of the earliest tag lines used in the project. True then. true now. For the Linuxfest audience, you might want to add something about the hundreds (or thousands) of F/LOSS projects that intersect with the OpenStreetMap project. You certainly can't be expert about all of them, or event list them, but the Linuxfest audience will want to be reassured that they can probably find a library for their preferred development environment. Break a leg! _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
