Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

[Steven Johnson]

+1 Hear, hear! Thank you, Robin for an eloquent response. 

--SEJ

Sent from my electronic tether. 

> On Oct 4, 2014, at 12:42, Robin Tolochko  wrote:
> 
> I considered not running for the board because of the low number of edits 
> that I've done, but ultimately decided that I have a lot to contribute to OSM 
> in other ways. It is anyone's prerogative to not vote for someone while 
> taking edits into account, but I want to explain why I decided to run despite 
> my low number of edits.
> 
> I recently moved back to the U.S. after living in Bogota, Colombia, for the 
> last four years. While living there, I used OSM data regularly in my job as a 
> cartographer at an NGO and ran OSM workshops for local university students. I 
> just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where I am starting up a Maptime chapter 
> and plan to do an introduction to OSM as our first session. I have been 
> wanting to get more involved with OSM, and I realized that I could put my 
> community outreach and organizing to use by running for the board.
> 
> As I and many other nominees stated, it's important to get new people 
> involved. But editing OSM can be quite intimidating to a new person, and I 
> would make it a priority to improve the on-ramp. I also think that we should 
> take advantage of existing learning networks, like universities, to spread 
> awareness of OSM and recruit more contributors. I know that these are 
> ambitious goals, and they may take more than a year, but those would be my 
> priorities on the board.
> 
> I don't think it would be wise for the OSM U.S. board to be comprised 
> entirely of inexperienced mappers, but I think it could benefit from having 
> someone on board who brings a fresh perspective and could even be considered 
> an "outsider." The future success of OSM, after all, depends on bringing more 
> outsiders into the fold. Also, I did not make the decision to run for board 
> lightly. I recognize that it would be a serious time and energy commitment, 
> but serving on the board would take advantage of my strengths to give back to 
> an organization that I deeply believe in.
> 
> I'm happy to talk with anyone, so please feel free to reach out to me via 
> email or Twitter. 
> 
> Saludos,
> Robin
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Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

[Robin Tolochko]

I considered not running for the board because of the low number of edits
that I've done, but ultimately decided that I have a lot to contribute to
OSM in other ways. It is anyone's prerogative to not vote for someone while
taking edits into account, but I want to explain why I decided to run
despite my low number of edits.

I recently moved back to the U.S. after living in Bogota, Colombia, for the
last four years. While living there, I used OSM data regularly in my job as
a cartographer at an NGO and ran OSM workshops for local university
students. I just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where I am starting up a
Maptime  chapter and plan to do an introduction to
OSM as our first session. I have been wanting to get more involved with
OSM, and I realized that I could put my community outreach and organizing
to use by running for the board.

As I and many other nominees stated, it's important to get new people
involved. But editing OSM can be quite intimidating to a new person, and I
would make it a priority to improve the on-ramp. I also think that we
should take advantage of existing learning networks, like universities, to
spread awareness of OSM and recruit more contributors. I know that these
are ambitious goals, and they may take more than a year, but those would be
my priorities on the board.

I don't think it would be wise for the OSM U.S. board to be comprised
entirely of inexperienced mappers, but I think it could benefit from having
someone on board who brings a fresh perspective and could even be
considered an "outsider." The future success of OSM, after all, depends on
bringing more outsiders into the fold. Also, I did not make the decision to
run for board lightly. I recognize that it would be a serious time and
energy commitment, but serving on the board would take advantage of my
strengths to give back to an organization that I deeply believe in.

I'm happy to talk with anyone, so please feel free to reach out to me via
email or Twitter .

Saludos,
Robin
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Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2014-10-01

[Dave Mansfield]

Hello Dave,

I have tried downloading  your maps. I put the .img file in the Garmin 
directory on a USB drive like I do other maps. When I start BaseCamp in the 
left window it looks like it's reading the map in but then it goes away. If I 
close and restart BaseCamp it will try to read it in again with the same 
results. I have tried renaming them and get the same results. Any idea what I'm 
doing wrong?

Thanks
Dave

-Original Message-
From: Dave Hansen [mailto:d...@sr71.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 4:44 AM
To: d...@sr71.net; talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2014-10-01

These are based off of Lambertus's work here:

http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl

If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask.  
However, please do not send me private mail.  The odds are, someone else will 
have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@ list, others can benefit.

Downloads:

http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2014-10-01

Map to visualize what each file contains:


http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2014-10-01/kml/kml.html


FAQ



Why did you do this?

I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact
of doing a large join on Lambertus's server.  I've also
cut them in large longitude swaths that should fit conveniently
on removable media.  

http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/2014-10-01

Can or should I seed the torrents?

Yes!!  If you use the .torrent files, please seed.  That web
server is in the UK, and it helps to have some peers on this
side of the Atlantic.

Why is my map missing small rectangular areas?

There have been some missing tiles from Lambertus's map (the
red rectangles),  I don't see any at the moment, so you may
want to update if you had issues with the last set.

Why can I not copy the large files to my new SD card?

If you buy a new card (especially SDHC), some are FAT16 from
the factory.  I had to reformat it to let me create a >2GB
file.

Does your map cover Mexico/Canada?

Yes!!  I have, for the purposes of this map, annexed Ontario
in to the USA.  Some areas of North America that are close
to the US also just happen to get pulled in to these maps.
This might not happen forever, and if you would like your
non-US area to get included, let me know. 

-- Dave


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[Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women

[alyssa wright]

Hi all!

I am pleased to announce that we are providing funding for an internship with 
HOT through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. This is an incredible 
organizations with proven success in bringing more women into open source 
communities. 

If you know of any great women (of any age!) that might be interested please 
forward along details here:

https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/OPM_Project_Ideas

We hope this is the first internship of many, and that next round multiple 
organizations come together to offer scholarships. I encourage you to mentor 
and welcome these women into the community as you always do! 

Kate and I are here to answer any questions.

Best,
Alyssa.

PS This by the way is an example of a contribution to OSM not measured in 
edits. :) 

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