On Feb 5, 2008 7:53 PM, Lambertus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great indept interview, you explained everything thorough and clear and with > a nice accent as well. Good job. BTW, how many ppl listen to that station? > Any response from listeners?
Thanks. I found it hard trying to pitch it to an unknown audience, especially with no visuals and trying to remember that they aren't all geeks or IT people. As for the listeners - I don't know how many people listen to it. It's only broadcast over a tiny area of London, but I think there are vastly more people listening to the podcasts. Certainly, the traffic to my website doubled yesterday and I've had a few people from way outside of London contacting me about it today via email. > Lucky that you speak an language that almost everyone can understand. I did > a short radio talk last week about OSM in a language which only about 400k > people speak... Got an enthousiastic response (friends of my parents calling > to say they heard it), but not many new volunteers afaik. I think a big thing for 2008 is getting beyond the point where most people in the OSM circles are volunteers for the project. In London for instance we'd only need another five or six people interested in cycle-mapping-based contributions and OSM will be completely useful for tens of thousands of people. So I'm starting to lean towards things like this radio interview being publicity for OSM *users* rather than specifically seeking more contributors. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
