Dear friends, There has been a lot of talk of a text support chat channel integrated into the tasking manager and/or iD / JOSM editors.
But there has to be an active friendly supportive place to connect new mappers to. I created this slack channel as a first attempt to build a supportive interested "live" support mechanism. So, who should join? Validators / Training People / Mapathon Organizers - You are core groups of people who care about helping new mappers map well. Catching things early will be impacted by this channel. Motivation will be there as the person sought out the help channel. Learning validation will be there for people who want perform the critical role of validation. New Mappers - Want a place to ask questions and get expert professional guidance in near real time? So let us start building this channel now and connecting new mappers to it in the near future. For sure this is not the "only" channel for new mapper support and discussion of validation, as we saw today, this email list does a very great job as well, IRC is integrated into Slack so people who try irc will automatically, anonymously be shared with the slack support folks. Come, join, please. General HOT chat. Click Channels on left, join mapper-support: https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/. Respectfully, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
