I also agree in regards to doing a TED talk about HOT and MissingMaps, or any of the ongoing projects for that matter. Almost all my friends watch TED talks, and a huge number of them are not involved with mapping, humanitarian work or open source projects, but I know a lot of them would watch the video if it was available.
It's a great way to reach out to non-specialists that might have never heard of HOT or GIS in general, but are curious. Well curious enough to watch a video at their finger tips, but not curious enough to search designated sites, forums, or blogs related to crowd sourced mapping. There is currently a massive hype around TED talks and we should use it to spread the word to the general public! Mhairi On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have watched a lot of TED talks online, and I think that HOT and > MissingMaps are ideal topics for TED, and it would be great exposure for > the projects. > > Mike > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Anders Anker-Rasch <and...@anker-rasch.no > > wrote: > >> I'm surprised that a TED-talk about HOT, or MissingMaps for that matter, >> hasn't been done already. Definitely about time to draw more attention to >> the worldwide effort. The smaller TEDx (independently organized events) >> should be targeted with presentations, as they are probably easier to get >> into. >> >> I do short presentations about the concept of HOT / MissingMaps every 14 >> days now for our group of Engineers Without Borders, and the potential for >> growth in both supporters and new mappers are enormous. >> >> mvh/best regards, >> Anders Anker-Rasch >> [image: View Anders Anker-Rasch's LinkedIn profile] View Anders >> Anker-Rasch's profile >> <http://no.linkedin.com/pub/anders-anker-rasch/36/27b/6a5> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/anders_ar >> >> >> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 08:06:38 -0700 >> From: Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> >> To: "'Mike Thompson'" <miketh...@gmail.com> >> Cc: 'communications' <communicati...@hotosm.org>, 'hot' >> <hot@openstreetmap.org> >> Subject: Re: [HOT] Communications Outreach >> Message-ID: <008f01d0510c$a826d900$f8748b00$@hotosm.org> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hi Mike, >> >> >> >> Actually yes, several HOTties (that I know of) have done radio and other new >> interviews over the last several years and probably many more that I don’t >> know about. Not sure all ‘the good ones’ are all linked, but a good place >> to do so is: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hot#HOT_in_the_Media >> >> >> >> I also heard Steve’s interview and thought it was great, but as you probably >> noticed the interviewer was driving the conversation (as well as getting >> random callers to ask questions, which I thought Steve did a wonderful job >> not knowing what might be asked). But, for now, the communication wg is >> more about helping us (HOT) drive the conversation, on that same wiki-page >> linked above (our main one) there are also slide-share and other material >> for anyone looking to build a TED talk type presentation – although I don’t >> think anyone has actually done an actual TED talk about HOT or even OSM for >> that matter. But at least Kate and myself in the working group have done >> presentations about HOT before, so we’d be happy to help folks prepare >> and/or look for opportunities although the wg priorities are first just >> setting up some basic groundwork for communication in general. >> >> >> >> Thanks for the input! >> >> =Russ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Mhairi O'Hara Technical Project Manager Email: mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org Indonesian Mobile: +62 822 4701 1475 *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team * *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
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