Dear Martin, Thank you very much, this is invaluable! I have some questions in line below, I also added these three items in the TM2 http://github.com/hotosm/ issues list so discussion is welcome there too.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Martin Dittus <mar...@dekstop.de> wrote: > 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. In the context of disaster response, an activation, how long should the early experience be? Is it ok if it is not a disaster related project, but a specific new mapper project, probably from missing maps? I would think we need a new mapped tailored part of the response mapping to direct new mappers too. > • 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. Yes, we have to make better use of email i think is what it comes down too. Really we need to engage with new mappers where they are, but the recurrent theme in many of these discussions is that email is best because OSM only or TM only contact solutions are missed by literally 1 day mappers. Emails seems the consensus, allow contributors to provide their email and opt-into some email messages from the Tasking Manager. > • 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? See the Live OSM mapper-support channel, that is a direct result of this suggestion and an attempt to accomplish the goal of connecting absolute beginners with the OSM community. ( https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ ) We have talked about embedding it in the TM or maybe making a PR to the iD editor. Please see this example of something like that: http://nateasmith.org/map-sidecar/ But the friendly supportive channel has to be there first and hot's slack channel mapper-support is intended to be that text channel, glad to see you in it!! The members of that channel now are all OSM members, some of the most experienced OSM members there are and they are also among the most motivated to welcome and support new mappers to OSM and humanitarian mapping in particular. And talk about validation, best practices for mapping, instructions, etc. It is a direct conduit to most if not all of the groups creating projects on HOT's instance of the OSM Tasking Manager software at the moment. It doubles as validtors "teir 3" support, they are identifying issues and problems and this is how to get things changed, they should not have to struggle to do their critical work, but instead have a direct line of support to the project managers so issues with projects can be identified fast, changes and fixes can get made fast so there is not more work later. It is a great support channel and about as plugged into the global OSM community as you can get with all the OSM and disaster response professionals in that channel. Thank you again for sending this email, your work Martin, has always informed our work and HOT and Missing Maps (and many other groups) would not be where they are today without you. Cheers from Ann Arbor, MI Blake > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, TM3 Project Manager skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ BE A PART OF HOT'S MICRO GRANTS: https://donate.hotosm.org/ _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
