Hi Martin, Thank you very much for this email!
I have created github issues for each item here: https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues Discussion is needed on the three items that I see as: 1 Connect newcomers to the existing community https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/895 2 Notification of emergent campaigns https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/894 3 Better management of TM Homepage during disasters https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/893 The community's insights and feedback on how best to do these three things as you describe them in more detail than my headings would be invaluable on this. As I said, here on this email thread or on those github issue threads How might we best connect newcomers to the existing community? How might we best do notifications of emergent campaigns? How might we better handle managing the TM front page during disasters? Respectfully, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Martin Dittus <mar...@dekstop.de> wrote: > Hallo all, > > I gave a talk at SotM in Brussels, summarising some of my key research > findings on HOT contributor engagement to date. Afterwards, Tyler asked me to > summarise my recommendations to organisers in a short message. I just saw > that the recording of the talk is already online, so I did a quick write-up > of some key points I wanted to make. > > A diary post with links to the recording and slides is here: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dekstop/diary/39935 > > In brief, I’d like to make three key recommendations: > • Carefully manage the tasking manager task listing during large disaster > events. People who join during these events don't tend to stay active for > long, and their contributions tend to have a lower quality. Point them > towards newcomer-friendly projects where they can make some early experiences. > • Introduce a notification mechanism to inform contributors of emergent > campaigns. While the mailing list may work for the core community, there is > likely a larger number of one-time mappers who may be willing to help out > again when they’re needed, but currently they have no means of finding out. > • Try to connect newcomers to the existing community as soon as possible, and > in a setting that is appropriate for absolute beginners. Where can people ask > questions online? Is the mailing list still appropriate for absolute > beginners? > > Do these recommendations make sense to you? > Do you have ideas about how to make them happen? > > (Note that I’m making the fundamental assumption that we’re trying to grow > the community. One could also make a case that the existing community is big > enough, and we simply need to refine the existing tools.) > > Greetings from London, > > m. > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
