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Re: [Talk-us] SotM in Brussels: Call for session proposals and Scholarship fund

2016-05-09 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Mikel--

Can you tell us about the program selection process? How will talk
proposals be evaluated and selected?

Thanks!
Kathleen

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Mikel Maron  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm delighted to report that the planning for State of the Map 2016 is
> going well. We have now opened the call for session proposals. You have
> until Saturday 21st May to submit your idea.
>
> Please see:
>
> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/04/19/propose-your-session-to-state-of-the-map-2016/
>
> We have also opened the scholarship programme. This has the same deadline
> so don't hesitate. The option is there if you need it so don’t let the cost
> of travel stand in your way!
>
>
> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/04/25/we-want-you-at-state-of-the-map-apply-for-a-scholarship/
>
> Hope to see many of you in Brussels! :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Mikel
>
> p.s. There are still sponsorship opportunities should your ourganization
> want to support OSM via this route. If interested drop us a note.
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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Re: [Talk-us] OSM10B Tulsa

2014-08-10 Thread Kathleen Danielson

A decade of OSM deserves more than a single day of celebration anyway!  ;-)
On Aug 9, 2014 7:24 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:

 Tulsa's 10th anniversary party is being postponed, probably one or two
 weeks, due to venue unavailability.  Code for America is helping organize
 this, and we had collective amnesia.

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Re: [Talk-us] Telenav goes OSM with Scout

2014-05-20 Thread Kathleen Danielson

How exciting! Congratulations Martijn, Steve, Kristen and all the other
OSMers at Telenav!




On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Martijn van Exel marti...@telenav.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 At Telenav we have started making the switch to OSM today, as you may have
 seen around the web and twitter.

 I am really excited about this, not only because I have been working at
 Telenav for the past two years to help make this happen, but also because
 the project that I have been a proud contributor to for all these years has
 finally reached a stage where this is now possible.

 What does this mean for you? Well first and foremost, you can now use
 Scout, a commercial grade navigation app that is used by tons of people
 every day, to get around, knowing that it is powered by your favorite map.
 The iOS version is undergoing the OSM switch right now, the Android version
 will switch in June.

 As an OSM contributor, you will of course start noticing that your OSM
 edits will make it into Scout. Not right away, like the map on osm.org;
 we currently update our maps every two weeks. That will get better as we
 get more comfortable with the rapid update cycles. Also, not all OSM edits
 make it into Scout. Most importantly, Scout search results are not powered
 by OSM yet. This is likely to change in the future, but I don’t know when
 yet.

 We have done a good chunk of work improving OSM to be ready for this,
 mostly in the very same way everyone here improves the map: by opening up
 our favorite editors and manually editing the data[1]. But also by
 analyzing the data and pointing out errors, which we have started to feed
 to MapRoulette. Speaking of which, I have had the opportunity to work on
 MapRoulette quite a bit, as well as other smaller  things such as the
 Battle Grid, Relation Pages and Brave Mappers. I mostly hear these things
 are useful, and we value all your feedback enormously as we think of more
 ways to support the project.

 But more than anything really I want to say thank you! Thank you first and
 foremost for being the great mapping community that makes OpenStreetMap
 what it is - not only the best map of the world, but also a place to make
 friends and have fun. And thank you for being patient with us. Along the
 way, we have at times bombarded this list with questions and suggestions on
 how to improve certain aspects of OSM, and we have relied on your wisdom to
 help us make sane decisions in our efforts to improve OSM.

 This process surely does not end with today’s switch - if anything, we’re
 just getting started. There is a lot more we can do to help improve the
 map, especially now that we are getting so many eyes on it. And there is
 probably a lot more to learn for us along the way. I am looking forward to
 it.

 Drop me a line if you have any questions or comments, or to let me know
 your experience with Scout. Looking forward to hearing from you!

 Martijn

 [1] See my colleague Kristen talk more about that in her SOTM US talk:
 http://stateofthemap.us/session/telenav-osm-editing-experiences/

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Re: [Talk-us] SOTM EU (yes, EU)

2014-03-03 Thread Kathleen Danielson

I will be there for (almost) sure! I'm planning to submit a talk, but
haven't decided what yet.


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:

 Hi all,

 I know we're getting really close to SOTM US (only 5 weeks! check out
 the program and registration details at stateofthemap.us) I wanted to
 draw your attention to SOTM EU which is happening in Karlsruhe,
 Germany in June. A great opportunity to connect with the European OSM
 community! There's still a couple weeks to send in talk submissions,
 too - anyone interested in doing a 'state of the US' talk?

 Here's the web site with all the info: http://sotm-eu.org/
 --
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Re: [Talk-us] Meetup group sponsorship

2014-02-01 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Thanks, Steve and Telenav! This is really great!
On Feb 1, 2014 5:49 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:

 Hi

 Do you have a meetup.com group primary for running OSM events within the
 United States?

 Have you organized two or more events in the last 6 months?

 If you can answer yes to these two questions then Telenav would like to
 help fund your meetup.com costs; please drop me a line at
 ste...@telenav.com

 Thanks

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Re: [Talk-us] Local user groups

2014-01-22 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Surprising probably no one, I have a lot of thoughts on this topic, so I've
been watching this conversation with interest.

Not to toot my own horn, but I gave a talk on this very subject at SOTM US
2013, which you can watch here:
http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68098498

Among my key points is my intense loyalty to Meetup (I understand the
reservations, but it *just works*). I also have some recommendations around
how to structure such a group, and how to keep yourself from burning out.

I'll have more to say soon, but here's the main thing I want to say: No
matter what anyone tells you, or what you tell yourself, this isn't an easy
task, so don't get down on yourself if your local community seems to be
struggling. Community is hard. You're doing great.

More Soon,
KD


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Martijn van Exel mart...@openstreetmap.us
 wrote:

 I dislike relying on volatile third party services as much as the next
 person, but:
 * As stated before, it does get you unparalleled exposure outside of
 the regular channels, targeted at people actively looking to explore
 new interests / meet new people. Sure, many of these folks may just be
 grazing and will not turn into long term contributors, but some of
 them may, and we need both dedicated and casual contributors.
 * Setting up our own thing requires resources (time and commitment)
 that is hard to come by in a volunteer run organization with lots of
 other things on their minds.
 * Meetup is pretty well established, and if it were to go away, it
 would be pretty straightforward to take our business elsewhere.

 I second Richard's and Clifford's observation that in terms of growing
 a local community, there is really no perfect script, and the most
 important ingredient is not any single tool or design or words, it's
 perseverance. After two years I still have meet ups here in SLC with 2
 or three people attending, but sometimes it's more, and I get new
 folks from time to time, and that keeps me motivated. I make sure that
 our meetup group always shows a next event with a time and place (I
 have two monthly recurring events: Geobeers and Saturday Mapternoon.)
 I believe that helps.

 If there is one single piece of technology I would like to invest some
 time in, it would be an automaton to grab the new user feed from
 http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm.php for a given area and send
 them an OSM message tailored to the area (announcing next meetup or
 something). Anyone done anything like that already we can reuse?

 Martijn

 On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
 wrote:
 
  On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com
 wrote:
 
The publicity aspect of Meetup really gets people to your events.
  Though i wonder if these people are the long term contributors to OSM
 that
  we want.
 
 
  It is in part a numbers game. Only a small percentage will become regular
  mappers and of that only a small percentage will become uber mappers.
  Certainly the planning for and running the event can positively impact
 those
  numbers. Something cause people to sign up for an event. Hopefully the
  people they meet and the satisfaction of mapping will appeal to them.
 
  BTW - I don't have the right script yet either. I just keep blindly
  trying! The bad thing is that even if you do have the perfect meeting,
 you
  don't know until much later if it worked.
 
  But Meetup also creates an awareness to OSM. People just looking for a
  group, will see our Meetups. They may not join, but they see
 OpenStreetMap.
 
 
 
  --
  Clifford
  @osm_seattle
  OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
 
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[Talk-us] Winter #editathon planning

2014-01-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi All,

In case you haven't already seen it, we've got a great lineup of events for
the 2014 winter #editathon happening in less than two weeks[1]. I wanted to
send a note to remind everyone about the event and also put out a call to
organizers because we've got some great resources we'd like to share with
you.

I'm planning on hosting a Google/IRC/smoke signal hangout in the next few
days to help organizers get the most out of the event and make sure
everyone has the resources they need. What this means is that if you've
listed yourself as the contact person on the wiki for the event, you should
expect an email from me in the next day or so.

If you haven't added your city to the list of events yet, or if you're on
the fence about it, feel free to reach out-- I'd love to help you decide if
you should host an event and figure out how to get started.

Stay warm out there!
Kathleen

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Winter_Editathon_2014
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[Talk-us] Mark Your Calendars: Winter #Editathon Jan 18-19

2014-01-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson

By now you've seen calls for locations and organizer prep, but here it is--
the official Winter #Editathon announcement!

The weekend of January 18th and 19th we'll be gathering in homes, offices,
coffeeshops, and more across the US to work on improving OSM. You can work
on editing whatever you what-- the only rule is to include #editathon in
all of your changeset comments.

Read more on the OSM US blog [1] and if your city isn't listed, go ahead
and add it to the wiki [2].

Curious about what and #editathon is, and why we have them? Check out
Alex's blog post[3] from this summer to learn more!

Happy Editing!

Kathleen

[1] http://openstreetmap.us/2014/01/january-winter-editathon/
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Winter_Editathon_2014
[3] http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/
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Re: [Talk-us] Call for Locations: 2014 Winter #Editathon!

2013-12-11 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Everyone!

Just a reminder that the winter #editathon is just over 5 weeks away,
January, 18-19. We're still looking for locations, so feel free to get in
touch with me if you have any questions about hosting or planning an
in-person #editathon event.

Otherwise, go ahead and add your city to the wiki here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Winter_Editathon_2014

Cheers,
Kathleen


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Kathleen Danielson 
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/

 Our next #Editathon will be held the weekend of January 18-19, 2014. We've
 opened up a call for locations [1]-- so add your city to the list!

 During our most recent editathon we had 12 cities participating, and the
 event has been growing steadily over the last year. If you've considered
 hosting a local mapping party in the past, this is a great opportunity to
 get your feet wet. Hosting an editathon is easier than you think. See some
 helpful suggestions here [2].

 Editathons are great opportunities to focus on what your local community
 wants and needs. Is there a local contingent with a strong interest in
 improving city parks on OSM? Maybe you have a lot of folks who are
 interested in OSM, but have never actually contributed before and just need
 someone to show them the ropes? Maybe it's a combination of many things.
 Whatever your local community is looking for is the right thing to focus
 on, and the #editathon is a great time to do just that.

 Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, but otherwise,
 I'm looking forward to seeing what cities will be participating in the
 first #editathon of 2014!

 Mappily Yours,
 Kathleen

 [1] http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/
 [2] http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/


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Re: [Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

2013-11-27 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Thanks for raising this-- I just took a look at the PA relation which
apparently was last edited by me (what?). There's a gap in my hometown
(which I may or may not have created). Fixing now!




On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:

 On 11/27/13 8:26 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
  On 11/27/13 7:44 AM, Josh Doe wrote:
  Massachusetts, 2991960, 8.3, 145.2
  Connecticut, N/A, 0, 83
  New York, 2007688, 78.4, 142.3
 
  i'm willing to take a look at NY/CT/MA over the next
  couple of months
 
 looking at the gap from NY 17 west now. this is way,
 way easier than fixing admin_boundaries

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Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

2013-11-13 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Jeff,

If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC) would like to put
together a proposal for DC, those of us on the board would be happy to read
it! What we need in a proposal can be found here:
http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/

We'll need a very quick turnaround, but let us know if you start working on
a proposal and we'll give you a sense of our timeline.

Thanks!
Kathleen


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:

 What about DC that time of year? I'd really like to see more cooperation
 among USG agencies using and contributing to OSM and that may be a great
 time/place to kick that off. I'm sure Bonnie et al wouldn't object ;) I
 believe my employer (boundless) would be willing to help organize if it was
 close to home.

 On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:14, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Jeff,

 We didn't receive any location proposals, so we're working on locations
 and will announce when we have something set up.

 Since the global SotM event is usually held in the second half of the year
 we've moved the time frame for SotM US up to Spring so that it's not too
 close to the global event. This puts us in March-May and FOSS4G is in
 September. Also, we've already had a SotM in Portland and while it was
 pretty darn great, we're trying to spread the love to other cities, too.

 -Ian

 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.comwrote:

 According to the CfP, the decision should have been made by the end of
 last month. Anyone have any idea where the decision making progress is at?
 Also curious why it couldn't be held in the fall in conjunction with FOSS4G
 in Portland? Haven't heard much of anything on the global event either at
 this point.

 Thanks in advance!

 Jeff

 On Friday, September 13, 2013, Bonnie Bogle wrote:

 Hi everyone,
 The call for locations for State of the Map US 2014 is open! Find out
 all about it on the openstreetmap.us blog:

 http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/

 State of the Map US is a great opportunity to bring US and international
 mappers together with folks from government, business, nonprofit,
 education, and more. It's about coming together and discussing the future
 of OpenStreetMap, and about bringing OpenStreetMap to a wider audience to
 grow it in numbers and diversity. This coming year we're aiming for a
 Spring date in March through May.

 We look forward to your submissions!

 Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

2013-11-13 Thread Kathleen Danielson

If we're going to be getting proposals from folks, I think I'd like to see
that within a week, so 11/20 at the latest. We're moving very quickly on
our end to come up with viable solutions, so I don't want to delay. I hope
you understand!


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok, let me ask a few folks what they think, including Bonnie, and I'll get
 back to the list. What are the preferred dates?

 On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:29, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi Jeff,

 If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC) would like to put
 together a proposal for DC, those of us on the board would be happy to read
 it! What we need in a proposal can be found here:
 http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/

 We'll need a very quick turnaround, but let us know if you start working
 on a proposal and we'll give you a sense of our timeline.

 Thanks!
 Kathleen


 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.comwrote:

 What about DC that time of year? I'd really like to see more cooperation
 among USG agencies using and contributing to OSM and that may be a great
 time/place to kick that off. I'm sure Bonnie et al wouldn't object ;) I
 believe my employer (boundless) would be willing to help organize if it was
 close to home.

 On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:14, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Jeff,

 We didn't receive any location proposals, so we're working on locations
 and will announce when we have something set up.

 Since the global SotM event is usually held in the second half of the
 year we've moved the time frame for SotM US up to Spring so that it's not
 too close to the global event. This puts us in March-May and FOSS4G is in
 September. Also, we've already had a SotM in Portland and while it was
 pretty darn great, we're trying to spread the love to other cities, too.

 -Ian

 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.comwrote:

 According to the CfP, the decision should have been made by the end of
 last month. Anyone have any idea where the decision making progress is at?
 Also curious why it couldn't be held in the fall in conjunction with FOSS4G
 in Portland? Haven't heard much of anything on the global event either at
 this point.

 Thanks in advance!

 Jeff

 On Friday, September 13, 2013, Bonnie Bogle wrote:

 Hi everyone,
 The call for locations for State of the Map US 2014 is open! Find out
 all about it on the openstreetmap.us blog:

 http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/

 State of the Map US is a great opportunity to bring US and
 international mappers together with folks from government, business,
 nonprofit, education, and more. It's about coming together and discussing
 the future of OpenStreetMap, and about bringing OpenStreetMap to a wider
 audience to grow it in numbers and diversity. This coming year we're aiming
 for a Spring date in March through May.

 We look forward to your submissions!

 Cheers,
 Bonnie


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Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

2013-11-13 Thread Kathleen Danielson

To be clear, we (as in, the OSM-US Board and Bonnie, our conference
organizer) are totally open to getting proposals from anywhere. We didn't
receive any during the CfP period and have been working on selecting a
location of our own. We aren't all the way there yet though, so more info
is welcome.

I'm just giving a constrained timeline because we are well past the CfP
deadline and need to lock in a venue soon. Do let us know if you start
pulling together a proposal-- we'll be eager to see what you come up with!

Best,
Kathleen



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:

  On 11/13/13 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

 What about DC that time of year?

 it would be nice for it to come back to the east coast. the recent history:

 2010 - Atlanta
 (2011 Denver SOTM, no SOTM-US that year)
 2012 - Portland
 2013 - San Francisco

 there had been a DC proposal in 2010 as i vaguely recall, the wiki page
 for it may still be out there.

 richard


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Re: [Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

2013-11-13 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Personally, I'm angling for Honolulu.


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Eric Theise ericthe...@gmail.com wrote:

 No question DC could host SotM US in style, but I'd be thrilled to see
 it move to the heartland. Too big of a stretch for it to be in
 Chicago?

 Eric

 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Ok well don't let me get in your way! DC is always just a pretty easy
  default location and Boundless (OpenGeo) has organized conferences there
  before with MapBox. Happy to help if we can.
 
  On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:37, Kathleen Danielson 
 kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  If we're going to be getting proposals from folks, I think I'd like to
 see
  that within a week, so 11/20 at the latest. We're moving very quickly on
 our
  end to come up with viable solutions, so I don't want to delay. I hope
 you
  understand!
 
 
  On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Ok, let me ask a few folks what they think, including Bonnie, and I'll
 get
  back to the list. What are the preferred dates?
 
  On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:29, Kathleen Danielson
  kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi Jeff,
 
  If you or someone at Boundless (or someone else in DC) would like to put
  together a proposal for DC, those of us on the board would be happy to
 read
  it! What we need in a proposal can be found here:
  http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/
 
  We'll need a very quick turnaround, but let us know if you start working
  on a proposal and we'll give you a sense of our timeline.
 
  Thanks!
  Kathleen
 
 
  On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  What about DC that time of year? I'd really like to see more
 cooperation
  among USG agencies using and contributing to OSM and that may be a
 great
  time/place to kick that off. I'm sure Bonnie et al wouldn't object ;) I
  believe my employer (boundless) would be willing to help organize if
 it was
  close to home.
 
  On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:14, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi Jeff,
 
  We didn't receive any location proposals, so we're working on locations
  and will announce when we have something set up.
 
  Since the global SotM event is usually held in the second half of the
  year we've moved the time frame for SotM US up to Spring so that it's
 not
  too close to the global event. This puts us in March-May and FOSS4G is
 in
  September. Also, we've already had a SotM in Portland and while it was
  pretty darn great, we're trying to spread the love to other cities,
 too.
 
  -Ian
 
  On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  According to the CfP, the decision should have been made by the end of
  last month. Anyone have any idea where the decision making progress
 is at?
  Also curious why it couldn't be held in the fall in conjunction with
 FOSS4G
  in Portland? Haven't heard much of anything on the global event
 either at
  this point.
 
  Thanks in advance!
 
  Jeff
 
  On Friday, September 13, 2013, Bonnie Bogle wrote:
 
  Hi everyone,
  The call for locations for State of the Map US 2014 is open! Find out
  all about it on the openstreetmap.us blog:
 
  http://openstreetmap.us/2013/09/call-for-locations-sotm-us/
 
  State of the Map US is a great opportunity to bring US and
  international mappers together with folks from government, business,
  nonprofit, education, and more. It's about coming together and
 discussing
  the future of OpenStreetMap, and about bringing OpenStreetMap to a
 wider
  audience to grow it in numbers and diversity. This coming year we're
 aiming
  for a Spring date in March through May.
 
  We look forward to your submissions!
 
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[Talk-us] Call for Locations: 2014 Winter #Editathon!

2013-11-05 Thread Kathleen Danielson

http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/

Our next #Editathon will be held the weekend of January 18-19, 2014. We've
opened up a call for locations [1]-- so add your city to the list!

During our most recent editathon we had 12 cities participating, and the
event has been growing steadily over the last year. If you've considered
hosting a local mapping party in the past, this is a great opportunity to
get your feet wet. Hosting an editathon is easier than you think. See some
helpful suggestions here [2].

Editathons are great opportunities to focus on what your local community
wants and needs. Is there a local contingent with a strong interest in
improving city parks on OSM? Maybe you have a lot of folks who are
interested in OSM, but have never actually contributed before and just need
someone to show them the ropes? Maybe it's a combination of many things.
Whatever your local community is looking for is the right thing to focus
on, and the #editathon is a great time to do just that.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, but otherwise, I'm
looking forward to seeing what cities will be participating in the first
#editathon of 2014!

Mappily Yours,
Kathleen

[1] http://openstreetmap.us/2013/11/january-winter-editathon/
[2] http://openstreetmap.us/2013/07/why-editathons/
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Re: [Talk-us] Fall Editathon Seattle Edition

2013-10-20 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Mele,

That resource page is awesome! We should definitely put that into our
toolkit to help future editathon organizers!

DC's Editathon is happening later today!

KD


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Melelani Sax-Barnett saxb...@gmail.comwrote:

 Things went well in PDX too-- we had about 14 people who came and went
 throughout the day. Lots of newbies too! I did forget to take pictures
 though-- oops.

 Feel free to use/fork our resources page and slides here:
 http://pdxmele.com/editathon
 Repo: https://github.com/pdxmele/editathon

 Good luck to the other meetups this weekend!

 My best,
 Mele


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 Good to hear you've been having a good time! Re: battlegrid: you're
 most welcome! I've shown it to the folks present at the SLC Editathon
 today, and everyone found it useful. Please don't hesitate to send any
 feedback or suggestions this way.

 We had a really good time here in Salt Lake. The turnout was good by
 our standards (5 people, 2 new). We did not accomplish a lot of
 mapping but we did discuss a potential Utah address points import
 extensively. Also, because we all agreed this is a pleasant way to
 spend a Saturday afternoon, we are introducing a new monthly event,
 the Saturday Mapternoon! If you're in the area, check us out:
 http://www.meetup.com/osmutah/

 On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
 wrote:
  We had a great first day of map hacking in Seattle. I'd like to
 especially
  thank Martijn van Exel for creating maproulette.org/battlegrid. Our
 group is
  attacking the misaligned roads in Washington State using Battlegrid. For
  those that haven't used battlegrid, it is a visual tool to find
 difference
  between OSM roads and current Tiger data. We are finding that the Tiger
 data
  is better than OSM, especially in rural/outstate locations. But Tiger
 data
  isn't perfect either. Hopefully down the road, the US Census Bureau can
 use
  our data to improve their data.
 
  I would also like to thank Tableau Software for hosting this weekend.
 
  --
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[Talk-us] Running for the OSM US Board

2013-10-03 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Everyone,

Some of you know this already, but I've decided to throw my metaphorical
hat in the ring and run for a position on the OSM-US Board. You can read
why in my latest diary
entryhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KathleenLD/diary/20129
.

Don't forget to check out the Elections
wikihttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2013#Candidates_and_resultsto
see who else is running, and consider adding your name to the list as
well!

Remember, voting will run from 10/5 (this Saturday) to 10/12.

Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

2013-08-07 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Jason--

That's awesome! Can you help me get in touch with the organizers of those
events? I'd love to see if they'd be ok with us adding their events to
our Locations
page. http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/locations/




On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jason Remillard
remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 Also, it looks like we have some actual locations for some US events
 this weekend too. San Francisco, Denver, Nashua, NH.

 Thanks
 Jason



 On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Kathleen Danielson
 kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
  As you all know, in honor of OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday, we are
 holding a
  Birthday Sprint next weekend, August 10th - 11th. Since we can't all be
 in
  the same room (this time), this will be a distributed code sprint, so you
  won't even need to get off the couch! All you'll need to do is get
 online,
  and all you'll need to bring is your enthusiasm!
 
  Whoever has an OSM project they are working on is invited to rally their
  communities to do a dedicated push over those two days. We already have a
  LOT of great projects signed up, so if you want to help, but don't know
  where to get started, check out our projects page, where you can find
  contact info, code repositories, discussion lists and more.
 
  We're working to identify tasks for non-developers as well, so keep
 checking
  back as we get closer to the date of the sprint if you don't see anything
  you feel comfortable contributing to just yet.
 
  These are the projects that are signed up so far:
 
  OSM Groups
  HOT Website updates
  HOT cross-site toolbar
  Complete iD integration into tasking server
  WikiMaps
  Historical OSM
  Hashtag Aggregation
  Social Feature Planning (UX workshop)
  DC Building Import
 
  We're excited about all of the enthusiasm that we've heard so far, but
 this
  list isn't done yet! If you've got a project you'd like to add feel free
 to
  hit me up, or fork the github page. All we ask is that someone take
  ownership for the sprint, you provide a place where contributors can find
  tasks and ongoing discussion, and bring a lot of enthusiasm!
 
  Finally, even though this is a distributed code sprint, there are a few
  in-person events popping up (in DC, SF, and Salt Lake City). Find details
  here, and let us know if you're planning an in-person event too!
 
  KD
 
 
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Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2013-08-05 Thread Kathleen Danielson

I only know a little about Burning Man (seriously, just what I read in Cory
Doctorow's Homeland), but mapping BRC makes sense to me.

Is it on the exact same location every year? In that case it seems like it
would make sense to update the map annually. If they are on different parts
of the dessert each year, it would probably make sense to map each one, but
once the city is torn down, modify the tags to indicate a past structure.
The Historical OSM folks would probably have better guidance on the best
way to do this.

Either way, it seems like this could be a really neat way to preserve Black
Rock City.

Are any OSM folks going to be at Burning Man this year?


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com wrote:

 So Black Rock City is mapped on OpenStreetMap... twice. And both are old
 versions (the city as it was in 2008 and 2009). Anyone know why this is?
 Should the two old cities be deleted and replaced with the 2013 city?

 I have a feeling that this could be a fun publicity opportunity for OSM,
 if we're the first ones to map out Black Rock City during Burning Man. Not
 to mention that the kind of people who go to Burning Man would probably
 rather support OSM over Google Maps, given someone tells them about OSM. It
 brings in people from everywhere, so ideally they could go back to their
 respective communities and possibly get more involved in local OSM mapping.

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Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2013-08-05 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Do we have shapefiles for previous years? Even if we can't do 2013 yet it
might be fun to work on the last couple of years.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com wrote:
  Black Rock City moves slightly each year, to minimize impact on any
 particular spot in the playa. The streets are also given new names, and the
 city expands to accommodate additional population growth. It's effectively
 a totally new geography each time.
 
  Mikel has been involved in the project in the past, and been given
 advance private access to survey shapefiles.

 Yup, we have them for this year already, but are not always allowed to
 release them without permission. Will report back ASAP.

  -mike.
 
  On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Kathleen Danielson wrote:
 
  I only know a little about Burning Man (seriously, just what I read in
 Cory Doctorow's Homeland), but mapping BRC makes sense to me.
 
  Is it on the exact same location every year? In that case it seems like
 it would make sense to update the map annually. If they are on different
 parts of the dessert each year, it would probably make sense to map each
 one, but once the city is torn down, modify the tags to indicate a past
 structure. The Historical OSM folks would probably have better guidance on
 the best way to do this.
 
  Either way, it seems like this could be a really neat way to preserve
 Black Rock City.
 
  Are any OSM folks going to be at Burning Man this year?
 
 
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  So Black Rock City is mapped on OpenStreetMap... twice. And both are
 old versions (the city as it was in 2008 and 2009). Anyone know why this
 is? Should the two old cities be deleted and replaced with the 2013 city?
 
  I have a feeling that this could be a fun publicity opportunity for
 OSM, if we're the first ones to map out Black Rock City during Burning Man.
 Not to mention that the kind of people who go to Burning Man would probably
 rather support OSM over Google Maps, given someone tells them about OSM. It
 brings in people from everywhere, so ideally they could go back to their
 respective communities and possibly get more involved in local OSM mapping.
 
  Just ranting a pipe dream. Does this sound realistic?
 
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Re: [Talk-us] Burning Man old data, publicity opportunity

2013-08-05 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Clay, does this give you something to work with?


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com wrote:

 I'd love to help with this, but I'm not much of a burner (first  last:
 2001) so I won't be able to follow up. Sorry!

 -mike.

 On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

  He was certainly involved back then, but like me, his interest in
  BM/BRC has dropped off a bit. I've connected Migurski with the people
  in the Bay Area that have all the data and hoping he can help get
  everything together so it can go into the map.
 
  Jeff
 
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I'm almost certain that Mikel was involved in one, or both of those
 '08/'09
  efforts to map Black Rock City. Worth contacting him about what it would
  take to re-do it for 2013.
 
  -- SEJ
  -- twitter: @geomantic
  -- skype: sejohnson8
 
  There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate
 from
  incomplete data.
 
 
 
  On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Clay Smalley claysmal...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  So Black Rock City is mapped on OpenStreetMap... twice. And both are
 old
  versions (the city as it was in 2008 and 2009). Anyone know why this
 is?
  Should the two old cities be deleted and replaced with the 2013 city?
 
  I have a feeling that this could be a fun publicity opportunity for
 OSM,
  if we're the first ones to map out Black Rock City during Burning
 Man. Not
  to mention that the kind of people who go to Burning Man would
 probably
  rather support OSM over Google Maps, given someone tells them about
 OSM. It
  brings in people from everywhere, so ideally they could go back to
 their
  respective communities and possibly get more involved in local OSM
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  Just ranting a pipe dream. Does this sound realistic?
 
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Re: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

2013-08-02 Thread Kathleen Danielson

All,

Just a heads up that this is still in the works. I've been doing a lot of
behind the scenes planning with Mikel and others, and we'll have a more
formal announcement in the next day or so explaining what the plans are and
highlighting the projects that are involved.

In the meantime, feel free to ping me with any questions, or let me know if
you'd like to include your project in the sprint! (We'll just need someone
to take ownership for it, a place where contributors can find tasks and
ongoing discussion, and a lot of enthusiasm!)


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kathleen Danielson 
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 As far as DC, I think it would depend on how many people are interested in
 attending. Let's continue the local discussion on the MappingDC list.

 I love the idea of non-coding tasks, since we aren't all developers, but
 many of us still really want to help. I think it would be great if people
 who are involved in projects could respond to this thread (or just create
 another one) with some ideas for sprint tasks for both devs and non-devs.
 This would be a great opportunity to solicit testing, or get help writing
 documentation, for example, as well as the more obvious development tasks.
 I think what will help is if people can make clear asks before the event so
 that when the Birthday Sprint comes we can hit the ground running.

 I've spoken with a few of you about this, but I'll follow up off list for
 some projects/tasks that I think could benefit from a little Birthday
 Sprint love. Don't wait to be invited, though-- if you'd like to work on
 your project and maybe organize your community around it, go for it! Feel
 free to use this thread to propose an idea, or create another thread if you
 want to have some more discussion around it.

 Cheers!
 Kathleen


 On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.comwrote:

 This is a great idea Kathleen, best way to celebrate. We want to keep up
 the momentum from SOTMUS, and pick up other projects too. In HOT, we're
 starting to organize our tech work, and this would be good timing to get
 some focus.

 For DC, where could we host it? American Red Cross may or may not be
 available. OpenGovHub is a little complicated on the weekends.

 Also, wonder if there's non-coding tasks we could pick up. There's lots
 of initiatives coming out of SOTMUS ... TeachOSM, Diversity Task Force.
 Within HOT, we have a lot of policy and communication needs.

 -Mikel

 * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron

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 *To:* OpenStreetMap US Talk talk-us@openstreetmap.org
 *Sent:* Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:31 PM
 *Subject:* [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

 Hi Everyone,

 I hope you're all enjoying your Independence Day celebrations! I'm
 thinking toward another upcoming anniversary-- OpenStreetMap's 9th
 birthday! I know that folks are planning various celebrations in cities
 around the world, and I thought that it might be a good idea to plan a
 Birthday Sprint to continue the work from the SOTMUS Sprint Days.

 So, I propose that on the weekend of August 10-11 we hold a remote
 Birthday Sprint on any and all OSM projects. What this means is that
 whoever has a project they are working on can rally their community to do a
 dedicated push over those two days. I'm thinking MapRoulette, new 
 osm.orgfeatures, iD updates-- whatever. Then, we just do it! If people want 
 to
 host in-person sprint day events, that's fantastic, but even though being
 in the same room is vastly beneficial, it's not always feasible on a
 project like this, so the assumption is that this will be a predominantly
 remote event.

 It's been great to see all of the enthusiasm and momentum coming out of
 SOTMUS, so let's keep that going with the Birthday Sprint!

 Cheers,
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[Talk-us] Mark your calendars for the #BirthdaySprint! (Now with snazzy website!)

2013-08-02 Thread Kathleen Danielson

As you all know, in honor of OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday, we are
holding a Birthday
Sprint http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/ next weekend, August 10th
- 11th. Since we can't all be in the same room (this time), this will be a
distributed code sprint, so you won't even need to get off the couch! All
you'll need to do is get online, and all you'll need to bring is your
enthusiasm!

Whoever has an OSM project they are working on is invited to rally their
communities to do a dedicated push over those two days. We already have a
LOT of great projects signed up, so if you want to help, but don't know
where to get started, check out our projects
pagehttp://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/about/,
where you can find contact info, code repositories, discussion lists and
more.

We're working to identify tasks for non-developers as well, so keep
checking back as we get closer to the date of the sprint if you don't see
anything you feel comfortable contributing to just yet.

These are the projects that are signed up so far:

   - OSM Groups
   - HOT Website updates
   - HOT cross-site toolbar
   - Complete iD integration into tasking server
   - WikiMaps
   - Historical OSM
   - Hashtag Aggregation
   - Social Feature Planning (UX workshop)
   - DC Building Import

We're excited about all of the enthusiasm that we've heard so far, but this
list isn't done yet! If you've got a project you'd like to add feel free to
hit me up, or fork the github page. All we ask is that someone take
ownership for the sprint, you provide a place where contributors can find
tasks and ongoing discussion, and bring a lot of enthusiasm!

Finally, even though this is a distributed code sprint, there are a few
in-person events popping up (in DC, SF, and Salt Lake City). Find details
here http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/locations/, and let us know
if you're planning an in-person event too!

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Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Martijn (and other board members),

Can you talk about the responsibilities of the board as well as the time
commitment that is expected? That would be helpful for people who are
considering running.

And the board is limited at 5 members, is that correct?

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:

Hi talk-us,

Here's a brief update from the Chapter Board on the upcoming elections. As
you know, the board is elected on a one year mandate. Our term ends on
October 13 of this year. This is still a little while away, but we'd like
all of you to think about the next year of the OSM US Chapter, and who
should be on the board to represent you.

Perhaps you are thinking of yourself? You should be! Being on the board
does not require superhero skills, just a dedication to OpenStreetMap in
the United States and a determination to put your ideas into action.

If you want to nominate yourself for a position on the board, head over to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2013and
add yourself. It helps a lot if you write a brief manifesto, outlining
why you want to be on the board and what you would aim to accomplish. This
will help voters make an informed choice.

We have more voting members than ever before (thanks in part to the
membership drives around the previous SOTM US conferences) so the upcoming
elections should be interesting and important!

We will continue to follow up with more details about the elections as
they emerge. In the mean time, don't hesitate to voice your questions or
concerns here or at bo...@openstreetmap.us.

On behalf of the OSM US chapter board,
--
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Re: [Talk-us] Chapter Board Elections

2013-07-30 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Also, who is allowed to second a nomination?

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:

the board is currently 5 members. i don't off the top of my head recall
if that's
in the bylaws or part of the standing rules (things specified in the
standing rules
are much easier to change.)

On 7/30/13 1:56 PM, Kathleen Danielson wrote:

Hi Martijn (and other board members),

Can you talk about the responsibilities of the board as well as the time
commitment that is expected? That would be helpful for people who are
considering running.

And the board is limited at 5 members, is that correct?

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:

Hi talk-us,

Here's a brief update from the Chapter Board on the upcoming elections.
As you know, the board is elected on a one year mandate. Our term ends on
October 13 of this year. This is still a little while away, but we'd like
all of you to think about the next year of the OSM US Chapter, and who
should be on the board to represent you.

If you want to nominate yourself for a position on the board, head over
to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Elections/2013and
add yourself. It helps a lot if you write a brief manifesto, outlining
why you want to be on the board and what you would aim to accomplish. This
will help voters make an informed choice.

We have more voting members than ever before (thanks in part to the
membership drives around the previous SOTM US conferences) so the upcoming
elections should be interesting and important!

We will continue to follow up with more details about the elections as
they emerge. In the mean time, don't hesitate to voice your questions or
concerns here or at bo...@openstreetmap.us.

On behalf of the OSM US chapter board,
--
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Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Clifford,

Wow--thanks for sharing those stats! They are really interesting!

I just took a look at the link you shared and it looks like we're seeing
the number of mappers contributing on any given day. Do you know if it's
possible to find the number of mappers contributing in a week or even
month? That might give us a better sense of the real number of mappers in
the US. (They would all still be relative to other countries, but it might
give us a better indication of how we're doing. For example, when I first
saw that 202 number, I was surprised at how low it was compared to SOTMUS
attendance (380+), but knowing it's a daily tally makes far more sense.

Anyway, I think that a goal of increasing active mappers is really smart--
perhaps we could set annual or quarterly targets for ourselves?

Can you talk more about what an OSM Ambassador would do? I'm familiar w/
Fedora, but not its Ambassadors.




On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:

 We have over 200 mappers contributing to OSM in the US driving us to
 second place, but way behind Germany. Look at OSM Stats for the details.
 http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries

 Second place is good, but I wonder what we could be if we made it our goal
 to increase the number of active mappers. When you look at our numbers
 against our population, there is a lot of room for growth. See the chart of
 the top 10 below. The data was taken from osmstats along
 with population data from Wikipedia.

   Rank Country Population Mappers Nodes Created Nodes Modified Deleted
 Nodes New Nodes Per Mapper Mappers per 1M Population  1 Germany 80,493,000
 564 72992 40981 7174 129 7.01  2 United States 316,278,000 202 62036 18103
 23815 307 0.64  3 Russia 143,400,000 191 84192 17872 3008 441 1.33  4
 France 65,684,000 182 116333 14463 13497 639 2.77  5 Italy 59,704,082 116
 42873 10047 2603 370 1.94  6 United Kingdom 63,181,775 113 36210 4111 2233
 320 1.79  7 Poland 38,533,299 91 37578 4271 4112 413 2.36  8 Austria 8,464,554
 77 18564 4414 948 241 9.10  9 Spain 47,059,533 70 25214 3745 712 360 1.49
 10 Belgium 11,153,405 52 16430 2201 1670 316 4.66

 I'd like to suggest that we adopt a goal of increasing the number of
 active mappers in the US. I'm not sure how we accomplish it, but I'd like
 to solicit suggestions and feedback. Lets set some target goals.  I think
 this is a worth while project to work on.

 I'll start by just listing a few of my thoughts:

 We need publicity!
 Increase diversity of mappers by attracting more women and minority mappers
 Support for local groups
 OSM Ambassadors (Like Fedora Ambassadors if you are familiar with the
 linux distribution Fedora)


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Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Kai-- those are some really great ideas around publicity!

Personally, I think we'd need a dedicated PR person on staff to fully
accomplish this. That's not really feasible in the near term, though-- so
maybe we should think about ways that we can break that down into
volunteer-sized tasks? This seems like a great Birthday Sprint project...
(hint hint...)

Non OSM conferences and trade shows also seem like a great opportunity for
OSM outreach and publicity, as those events can often also reach hundreds
or
thousands of people, many of whom might act as multiplicators as they are
often the more active members in their community.

Can the folks who were at the Esri UC talk about the OSM presence, the
mapping party, and how that all went?

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote:

Clifford Snow wrote
I'll start by just listing a few of my thoughts:

We need publicity!

Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and
should
try and work on as a group. Looking at the data, it is clear that when ever
there was significant publicity on OSM, the number of editors (particularly
new ones) has shot up, at least for a while.

While local mapping events are great and important, they probably only
manage to get a handful of new mappers if at all. Having an article in a
news paper or significant blog on the other hand is likely to get many more
new mappers.

So perhaps instead of setting targets of that we want to achieve X number
of
active mappers in a certain time frame, we could set a target of aiming to
have Y articles about OSM in the press and Z talks / booths at conferences
by then.

Those targets are much more tangible than the number of active mappers as
how any given action will effect that number is rather more speculative.

As a group in osm-us, we can perhaps work on identifying likely magazines
and conferences that would have an interest in high quality open maps.
Which groups with interest might be particularly underrepresented and
therefor good candidates for outreach? Furthermore, we can exchange ideas
of
what worked best at those events in order to improve the marketing
message. E.g. how does one convince an editor that writing about OSM is
worthwhile thing to do for their audience. How can you become a guest
author to write an article for them and get it accepted? Which aspects of
OSM are particularly amenably for writing good articles? If you go to have
a
booth at a show, what are things easiest to demonstrate? What are the demos
that spark most interest?

Then we can find local volunteers who actually go to the events or talk to
editors to do the real outreach.

We still have a long way to go from the 0.6 mappers per 1M population in
the
US to the 9 mappers per 1M population in Austria, but collectively we
hopeful have enough skill and enthusiasm to really work on improving our PR
and push those numbers up.

Kai

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Re: [Talk-us] Steady increase in the number of mappers in the US

2013-07-19 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Clifford, of your 4 ideas only getting coverage in mainstream press would
probably be effective.

Hey folks,  just a quick note to be mindful of the way we're responding to
each other's ideas, and to be especially careful since as we all know,
tone is easily misread online.

(And thanks to Jason for allowing me to unfairly pull out one line from a
thoughtful message and use him as an example)
On Jul 19, 2013 6:11 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hello,

 Most people would agree that we don't have nearly enough people mapping.
 Clearly, transcending our early adopter types of GIS and open source
 software people will be needed. However, effective strategies for on
 boarding the next million people are going to be very different than what
 was needed to get the first say 100,000 people signed up. I know this is
 very un PC to say, but things like mapping parties/local chapters which
 were absolutely essential to recruit the first 100,000 people, really will
 not matter much going forward. Even if you get 100 people per mapping
 party, its 15,000 mapping parties, to get the next 1.5 million mappers! We
 need to be thinking about things that will scale to lots, and lots of
 people.

 Clifford, of your 4 ideas only getting coverage in mainstream press would
 probably be effective. Besides working on mainstream press, getting people
 using our data is *and* understanding they can come in and change it is
 probably our best hope because it scales.

 1. Push back on high volume down stream data consumers that do the
 absolute minimum on working with us. For example, foursquare, who has 30
 million users, is doing an awful job supporting us. They have the OSM
 credit buried in a blog posting which a bunch of other items. They don't
 even mention that anybody can go to OSM to edit the map. Shame on them!!
 Cragslists, does a much better job. They have an OSM link on the bottom of
 the map and have a way of reporting problems on the map from their
 interface via our notes features. I am sure Cragslists has been drivings
 new mappers into the project. Other high volume consumer need to look more
 like Cragslists, and not foursquare, or Apple.

 2.We just had a big thread on this on the main talk list, but we need to
 support using our main web page for using our data for finding stuff,
 getting directions, and for mapping verticals (hiking, golf, bike, trains,
 hunting, etc).  Just today we took a step in this direction, and enabled
 the ability to use the location services to find your current position on
 the main web site! Our second fund raising round, includes a computer for
 router, and more tile servers. It looks like we are moving in this
 direction.

 3. Last bit, which we are also doing, is to improve our conversion rate.
 The new ID editor is pretty nice and I think will help.

 Its coming, I'm optimistic about our direction. But, we do need to
 understand that the project is at a new phase now. Even though it is lots
 of fun, getting together for mapping parties is not getting us the next 1.5
 million people.

 Thanks
 Jason.






 On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Clifford Snow 
 cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:

 We have over 200 mappers contributing to OSM in the US driving us to
 second place, but way behind Germany. Look at OSM Stats for the details.
 http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries

 Second place is good, but I wonder what we could be if we made it our
 goal to increase the number of active mappers. When you look at our numbers
 against our population, there is a lot of room for growth. See the chart of
 the top 10 below. The data was taken from osmstats along
 with population data from Wikipedia.

   Rank Country Population Mappers Nodes Created Nodes Modified Deleted
 Nodes New Nodes Per Mapper Mappers per 1M Population  1 Germany 80,493,000
 564 72992 40981 7174 129 7.01  2 United States 316,278,000 202 62036
 18103 23815 307 0.64  3 Russia 143,400,000 191 84192 17872 3008 441 1.33
 4 France 65,684,000 182 116333 14463 13497 639 2.77  5 Italy 59,704,082
 116 42873 10047 2603 370 1.94  6 United Kingdom 63,181,775 113 36210 4111
 2233 320 1.79  7 Poland 38,533,299 91 37578 4271 4112 413 2.36  8 Austria 
 8,464,554
 77 18564 4414 948 241 9.10  9 Spain 47,059,533 70 25214 3745 712 360 1.49
 10 Belgium 11,153,405 52 16430 2201 1670 316 4.66

 I'd like to suggest that we adopt a goal of increasing the number of
 active mappers in the US. I'm not sure how we accomplish it, but I'd like
 to solicit suggestions and feedback. Lets set some target goals.  I think
 this is a worth while project to work on.

 I'll start by just listing a few of my thoughts:

 We need publicity!
 Increase diversity of mappers by attracting more women and minority
 mappers
 Support for local groups
 OSM Ambassadors (Like Fedora Ambassadors if you are familiar with the
 linux distribution Fedora)


 Cheers,
 --
 Clifford

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Re: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

2013-07-09 Thread Kathleen Danielson

As far as DC, I think it would depend on how many people are interested in
attending. Let's continue the local discussion on the MappingDC list.

I love the idea of non-coding tasks, since we aren't all developers, but
many of us still really want to help. I think it would be great if people
who are involved in projects could respond to this thread (or just create
another one) with some ideas for sprint tasks for both devs and non-devs.
This would be a great opportunity to solicit testing, or get help writing
documentation, for example, as well as the more obvious development tasks.
I think what will help is if people can make clear asks before the event so
that when the Birthday Sprint comes we can hit the ground running.

I've spoken with a few of you about this, but I'll follow up off list for
some projects/tasks that I think could benefit from a little Birthday
Sprint love. Don't wait to be invited, though-- if you'd like to work on
your project and maybe organize your community around it, go for it! Feel
free to use this thread to propose an idea, or create another thread if you
want to have some more discussion around it.

Cheers!
Kathleen


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:

 This is a great idea Kathleen, best way to celebrate. We want to keep up
 the momentum from SOTMUS, and pick up other projects too. In HOT, we're
 starting to organize our tech work, and this would be good timing to get
 some focus.

 For DC, where could we host it? American Red Cross may or may not be
 available. OpenGovHub is a little complicated on the weekends.

 Also, wonder if there's non-coding tasks we could pick up. There's lots of
 initiatives coming out of SOTMUS ... TeachOSM, Diversity Task Force. Within
 HOT, we have a lot of policy and communication needs.

 -Mikel

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 *Subject:* [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

 Hi Everyone,

 I hope you're all enjoying your Independence Day celebrations! I'm
 thinking toward another upcoming anniversary-- OpenStreetMap's 9th
 birthday! I know that folks are planning various celebrations in cities
 around the world, and I thought that it might be a good idea to plan a
 Birthday Sprint to continue the work from the SOTMUS Sprint Days.

 So, I propose that on the weekend of August 10-11 we hold a remote
 Birthday Sprint on any and all OSM projects. What this means is that
 whoever has a project they are working on can rally their community to do a
 dedicated push over those two days. I'm thinking MapRoulette, new 
 osm.orgfeatures, iD updates-- whatever. Then, we just do it! If people want to
 host in-person sprint day events, that's fantastic, but even though being
 in the same room is vastly beneficial, it's not always feasible on a
 project like this, so the assumption is that this will be a predominantly
 remote event.

 It's been great to see all of the enthusiasm and momentum coming out of
 SOTMUS, so let's keep that going with the Birthday Sprint!

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[Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!

2013-07-04 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Everyone,

I hope you're all enjoying your Independence Day celebrations! I'm thinking
toward another upcoming anniversary-- OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday! I know
that folks are planning various celebrations in cities around the world,
and I thought that it might be a good idea to plan a Birthday Sprint to
continue the work from the SOTMUS Sprint Days.

So, I propose that on the weekend of August 10-11 we hold a remote Birthday
Sprint on any and all OSM projects. What this means is that whoever has a
project they are working on can rally their community to do a dedicated
push over those two days. I'm thinking MapRoulette, new osm.org features,
iD updates-- whatever. Then, we just do it! If people want to host
in-person sprint day events, that's fantastic, but even though being in the
same room is vastly beneficial, it's not always feasible on a project like
this, so the assumption is that this will be a predominantly remote event.

It's been great to see all of the enthusiasm and momentum coming out of
SOTMUS, so let's keep that going with the Birthday Sprint!

Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-us] Onboarding new mappers | Keeping track of changes

2013-06-26 Thread Kathleen Danielson

How clever! +1


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 I regularly click on the History tab in a wide swath of Bay Area (my home
 turf) looking for new edits, and especially, new mappers.



 You might be interested in this ITTT recipe by Simone Cortesi, it is based
 on the RSS feed Pascal Neis creates, and you can easily adopt it to your
 area:
 https://ifttt.com/recipes/44673
 Every time a new user edits in your defined bounding box you'll get an
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Re: [Talk-us] New National Parks Mailing List

2013-06-11 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Quick question: will there be opportunities for armchair mappers to help,
or are you only looking for on-the-ground knowledge?


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote:

 During discussions in presentations at this years SOTM-US, participants
 expressed a desire to create a mailing list for people interested
 in collaborating to improving our maps of National Parks. We will use this
 list to develop goals and processes to improve mapping of National Parks.
 Joining the list will be National Parks Service employes to help us in this
 process.

 Once the presentations from State of the Map US are posted we'll get links
 out to two great presentations by Nate Irwin and Mamata Akella about how
 the National Parks Service is working with OSM to improve both official NPS
 maps as well as OSM.

 If you would like to join in other OSM mappers and the National Parks
 Service, please sign up to the new National Parks mail list at
 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-nps.

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Re: [Talk-us] meta question

2013-05-11 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Alyssa,

You might want to think about distributing a survey to the list. The
results would be self-selecting,  of course,  but it could provide you with
more robust demographic data than is collected by the talk list system.

I'll be interested to hear about your research at SOTM!
On May 11, 2013 3:52 PM, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks Ian!  Is there any way to get a breakdown of that by year, month or
 just generally since talk-us started in 2007.  As for usernames...I'm
 mostly wondering about any information regarding gender distribution, if
 that's at all possible.

 Thanks,
 Alyssa.


 On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 I won't give you usernames (e-mails in this case), but there are 331
 people signed up for the talk-us mailing list.


 On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:29 PM, alyssa wright 
 alyssapwri...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 I am doing some research and analysis on the talk-us mailing list (will
 share when not a complete mess) and was wondering who I can ask about
 access to some general stats.  Specifically, people registered and
 usernames. I'll be aggregating data so nothing would be personally
 identifiable.

 Thanks,
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Re: [Talk-us] SOTM-US list for room shares

2013-05-08 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hey folks-- just a reminder to add your names to the room share list in the
wiki if you're looking for one. Room reservations need to be made pretty
much immediately because of WWDC coming into town right on our heels. Also,
the special SOTM-US rate is only in effect until *this Friday,* after which
you'll all be at the whims of the free market :P

See you in San Francisco!


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 Also, I found that the rates go up quite a bit after the 10th. The
 WWDC effect no doubt.

 Added my details, my room is a double queen, I'd be happy to share.

 On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
  I've started a table at
  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2013#Room_sharefor
  SOTM-US room shares.
 
  Anyone considering a room share should plan it soon because the Holiday
 Inn
  Civic Center special SOTM-US rate requires booking by the 10th. Other
 hotels
  don't have a hard deadline, but rates seem to be increasing.
 
 
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Re: [Talk-us] OSMers in NYC?

2013-02-12 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Derick!

I'm so glad you reached out! I actually did the same thing recently when I
was in Europe-- I met up with mappers in Paris, Amsterdam, and Belgium.

I'd suggest you reach out to this OSM NYC meetup group:
http://www.meetup.com/osm-nyc/

Many of them are on this list however, so they might touch base with you
directly.

Cheers,
Kathleen


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nlwrote:

 Hi,

 I am currently visiting NYC and was wondering whether there are any
 OSMers around here for a pub meetup (what we do in London once every
 two weeks)? I can do Wednesday and Thursday evening.

 cheers,
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Re: [Talk-us] Turn restriction dispute

2013-02-10 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Out of curiosity, is asking someone to leave the project something that we
have done before? I'm wondering what kind of precedents we've set for
ourself. I am only vaguely familiar with the circumstances around this user
being removed from the list, so I'm curious about the decision to ban
someone from the list while still allowing him or her to make edits, even
though they can no longer participate in public discourse. I'm certainly
not trying to suggest that it was the wrong decision, just mentioning my
curiosity.
On Feb 10, 2013 12:31 AM, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote:

Russ, I second your vote/motion, not that anybody called for a second, or
even that I am able to offer it. What I AM able to do is be civil and
use the talk-us list, as it is our nationwide forum to discuss. There
are plenty of other consensus understandings that might be loosely called
rules which make up the fabric of OSM as a community. NE2 has again
proven that he is either unwilling or unable to abide by those.
Consequently, I think we should inform him that serious discussion of
permanently banning him from OSM (this thread) is underway, and his
behavior can either change for the better, or he can count on eventually
being permanently banned. He has had plenty of opportunities to do so, and
so I am not optimistic he will be around much longer. But if the community
wants him, that can emerge as a consensus as well.

His better (than nothing) edits are in a clear minority compared to the
usual messes he makes. He DOES, for better or worse, stir controversy,
which is why we discuss, which is part of the community. If, for that
reason alone (that he is controversial), there are those who do not wish to
ban him, speak up now, as you may (may) be able to make the case that we
need somebody like him as an example of what to do with difficult
contributors. I think it is unanimous that he is that, at least.

I wouldn't miss him if he were gone, either.

SteveA
California

He's banned from (at least) this list. Consequently, you cannot expect
him to discuss this issue here.

We had a discussion of whether to ban him from editing in the past,
which never really got resolved. It just died out. Yes, he's done a
lot of editing, and yes, some of his edits have been fruitful, but no,
some of his edits have been less than helpful. I wouldn't miss him if
he were gone.

I vote, not that anybody called for a vote, to ask him to leave.
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Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

2013-02-07 Thread Kathleen Danielson

I think a lot has to do with where it thinks you're located.


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:

 It's nice, though I question it's accuracy:  I'm not listed there.  At
 all.  Anywhere.  And I *should* be in the gold category on that at this
 point.  Weird.


 On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:


 On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:

 I wish there was a way to see locations of mappers beyond the first N
 closest and perhaps a way to filter by date of last activity.


 Have you seen this map?


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Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

2013-02-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson

I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be a
lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on my list. If you
organize *or are a member of* (or just know of) a local user group from
somewhere other than the areas listed below, please let me know ASAP!

New York
Chicago
Washington, DC
Boston
San Francisco (I'm combining this with Sunnyvale, but let me know if that's
incorrect and they are really two separate entities)
Seattle
St Louis
Tampa
Portland
Cleveland
Salt Lake City


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Kathleen Danielson 
kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Calling all OSM Local User Group organizers--

 Over the last several weeks I have reached out to many of you, but I am
 certain that I missed a few. I am working on wrapping my initial findings
 on the local OSM communities in the US, but I want to ensure that you're
 all represented.

 If we have NOT directly connected about your local OSM group, please shoot
 me a quick note to let me know that and I'll have some follow up questions
 for you after that. Nothing taxing or time-consuming, I swear!

 Thanks!
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Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

2013-02-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Re: Map -- All in good time. (Gotta write up my blog post first...)

Re: Remote meetup deployment: I love that idea and think it would be an
awesome goal 6 months from now. I'd love to have built up a local OSM user
group organizer toolkit by then, so that we can give them some tried and
tested resources to keep things going.

Re: Sponsors-- might be something that corporate OSM users would like to
sponsor...


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:

 Stupid suggestion - plot these on a map.

 Would be interesting to see which high-populaion areas *don't* have a meet
 up and then see if we can organize something remotely and then some of us
 fly in for a weekend, if inclined, to kick things off.

 Costs would be $200 for SWA flights plus $200 for hotels or something. I
 suspect we could find that kind of money somewhere to sponsor someone to do
 this.

 Steve

 On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Kathleen Danielson 
 kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 I heard from a few of you, so thanks a ton! I just realized this will be a
 lot easier if I give you the local groups I already have on my list. If you
 organize *or are a member of* (or just know of) a local user group from
 somewhere other than the areas listed below, please let me know ASAP!

 New York
 Chicago
 Washington, DC
 Boston
 San Francisco (I'm combining this with Sunnyvale, but let me know if
 that's incorrect and they are really two separate entities)
 Seattle
 St Louis
 Tampa
 Portland
 Cleveland
 Salt Lake City


 On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Kathleen Danielson 
 kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Calling all OSM Local User Group organizers--

 Over the last several weeks I have reached out to many of you, but I am
 certain that I missed a few. I am working on wrapping my initial findings
 on the local OSM communities in the US, but I want to ensure that you're
 all represented.

 If we have NOT directly connected about your local OSM group, please
 shoot me a quick note to let me know that and I'll have some follow up
 questions for you after that. Nothing taxing or time-consuming, I swear!

 Thanks!
 Kathleen


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Re: [Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

2013-02-06 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Excellent point-- what I had in mind was something along the lines of what
the Boston Python Workshop http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/about/ has
done-- they provide intro to Python workshops that encourage diversity
within the local python communities. They have had a lot of success
packaging their organizer toolkit, but they also have grants from the
Python Foundation to send trainers to the events. Obviously there are some
structural differences (looking to kick start communities, rather than
diversify existing ones, etc) but I think it's worth exploring.

I think this is something we can try on a small scale first (a few of us
from DC could head to Baltimore for a Saturday kickoff), and there is lots
more discussion to be had, but like I said-- I'd put this as a goal 6
months down the road, at least. Plenty of time to determine whether or not
it could be useful.


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:


 On Feb 6, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
  hrm.  imho, having outsiders parachute in to (kick-)start a local group
 discourages local leadership.  The locals end up thinking, hey, they'll
 come back and we can do it again some time.  No need for us to organize
 anything, or something.  That's not our goal. :(

 Right, but we also know what happens when we try nothing: nothing happens.

 What we *really* want is data, rather than our opinions, on what works.
 But, that is hard and expensive to obtain :-)

 Steve
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[Talk-us] Reaching out to Local User Groups

2013-02-05 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Calling all OSM Local User Group organizers--

Over the last several weeks I have reached out to many of you, but I am
certain that I missed a few. I am working on wrapping my initial findings
on the local OSM communities in the US, but I want to ensure that you're
all represented.

If we have NOT directly connected about your local OSM group, please shoot
me a quick note to let me know that and I'll have some follow up questions
for you after that. Nothing taxing or time-consuming, I swear!

Thanks!
Kathleen
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Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

2013-01-23 Thread Kathleen Danielson

No problem.

What would folks think of making this a semi-organized quarterly thing?
Monthly is probably too frequent, but quarterly might be the right pace.


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:

 We should definitely have 1 - 2 months lead time next time around. I know
 John's been looking at this as a casual first stab at something like that
 and we're all piling on now :)

 Let's make some more noise around this: Tweet and facebook that shiz, post
 here so we can amplify each other. Especially if you're running a local
 event. I'm getting some good responses here and hope to fill the MapBox
 conf room:

 https://twitter.com/lxbarth/status/293930779887665152

 Kathleen can you RT from @geo_dc?


 On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:34 PM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com
  wrote:

 Details at http://www.openstreetmap.us/.  Check back for updates before
 the event.

 Please join us for a day of editing and socializing at several US
 locations.  If you're interesting in hosting a local event, please contact
 me off-list.

 Best,

 --
 John Novak
 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676)
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanovak/
 OSM ID:oldtopos
 OSM Heat Map: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?oldtopos
 OSM Edit Stats:http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?oldtopos

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Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

2013-01-23 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Awesome! So glad you'll be joining us!


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Sax-Barnett, Melelani
barne...@trimet.orgwrote:

 I just wanted to spread the word that Portland will be having its own
 meetup for Saturday's OSM Edit-a-thon too. Sorry for the late notice-- we
 had some trouble finding a venue.

 We'll be meeting from 2-6 PM at the Radio Room at 1101 NE Alberta Street (
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?box=yesbbox=-122.65443%2C45.55921%2C-122.65419%2C45.55936
 ).

 More info at http://calagator.org/events/1250463436

 Hope to see a good crowd there!

 -Mele Sax-Barnett
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Re: [Talk-us] OSM Edit-a-thon January 26th

2013-01-19 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Steve,

Sorry we didn't get word out to you earlier-- we've put this together
somewhat rapidly, and I'm still in the process of organizing all of the
local user group community research I'm working on. Reaching out to you is
on my list! :)

I don't see any reason that your event on the 27th can't be considered a
part of the editathon, if you'd like. After the event I expect we'll put
together at least a blog post on OSM.us and we're more than happy to
include contributions from Seattle!

Cheers,
Kathleen


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:

 Could we (http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/) get a heads up to
 these things?

 We already have an event on the 27th, would be good to be able to put
 things together as appropriate.

 Thanks

 Steve



 On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:34 AM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com
 wrote:

 Details at http://www.openstreetmap.us/.  Check back for updates before
 the event.

 Please join us for a day of editing and socializing at several US
 locations.  If you're interesting in hosting a local event, please contact
 me off-list.

 Best,

 --
 John Novak
 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676)
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanovak/
 OSM ID:oldtopos
 OSM Heat Map: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?oldtopos
 OSM Edit Stats:http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?oldtopos
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Re: [Talk-us] Kathleen starting with community outreach for OSM-US

2012-12-19 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Martijn,

Thanks for sending that-- I didn't know about that feature of the User
Group template! I'm in the process of making a list of different places
where I can find lists of local user groups. At the moment it's just a
tangle of spreadsheets, but once I clean things up a bit I'll share it back
with the group.

So far, here are a few lists/directories that I'm planning on investigating:

http://www.meetup.com/Openstreetmap/
http://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=openstreetmapradius=Infinity (not the
same as the one above, evidently)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States

If anyone knows of other places I should be looking, please let me know!

One thing I should probably make clear is that the last thing I want to do
is interfere with any local groups that have a good thing going. If you've
only been communicating by smoke signal and morse code and that's been
working great for your group, who am I to say that's wrong? I'm way more
interested in learning how the different groups operate, and sharing best
practices when it's called for. I'm also not looking to create more work
for any of your community leaders who I'm sure are plenty busy already!

Finally, a few of you have reached out to me already, which is great-- feel
free to do that! If you want to touch base or think that I'm taking too
long to email you, go ahead and email me yourself :D

Cheers,
Kathleen


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:

 Kathleen,

 Are you aware of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_group ?

 I think the most interesting part is the User Groups wiki template,
 which if used on a wiki page (example:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City,_Utah ) makes your
 local UG appear on this here map:

 http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de/?zoom=5lat=39.23225lon=-94.76806layers=B0TTT

 Also, a lot of US local groups are on meetup:
 http://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=openstreetmapradius=Infinity but
 I'm sure you're aware of that because GeoDC is on there as well ;)

 Good luck and let us know what you need!

 Martijn

 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Kathleen Danielson
 kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hey Everyone--
 
  I'm really excited to work more with the local OSM groups in the coming
  weeks and months. My first plan is to do research on what communities are
  already out there and figure out how OSM-US can be supporting each of
 you.
  I'm also really interested in how the different local groups might
 connect
  with each other as well back to the US Chapter itself. I'm really
 excited to
  highlight the great work that all of you are doing, and share best
  practices/lessons learned with other communities around the country.
 
  Like Alex said, those of you who are running a local community should
 expect
  to hear from me soon, but don't hesitate to reach out to me sooner if you
  want to and get the conversation started!
 
  KD
 
 
  On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:
 
 
  If you're running a local OSM community you'll probably hear soon from
  Kathleen (copied).
 
  Kathleen's going to start with community outreach for the OpenStreetMap
 US
  chapter. Her first goals will be to find out who's active where [1] and
 find
  good ways of featuring that on our calendar [2] and blog [3]. Showing
 what's
  going on in OSM in the US will be a great start for building more
 momentum
  here and inspire others to get out mapping. I'm sure there will be more
 good
  stuff we can do to grow and connect our communities better that we will
 find
  out in the course of her work.
 
  Kathleen's doing awesome work here in DC co-organizing the @Geo_DC
 meetups
  so I'm stoked that she is volunteering her skills for OSM-US work. Get
 in
  touch with her if you're interested in OSM community work and in
 general,
  never be shy to ask around if you'd like to start working on something
 in
  OSM but aren't quite sure where to start :) Aside from your local meetup
  [1], the virtual mappy hours [2] are a good place to meet more people or
  just drop me an email.
 
  [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States
  [2] http://www.openstreetmap.us/calendar/
  [3] http://openstreetmap.us/
 
  Kathleen on OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KathleenLD
  Kathleen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KathleenLD
 
  Alex Barth
  (OpenStreetMap US Secretary)
  http://twitter.com/lxbarth
  tel (+1) 202 250 3633
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hi Greg,

That's an interesting point. What alternatives would you suggest for
virtual meetings?

KD
On Dec 18, 2012 8:56 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:


   Or if you'd like to join, and Google+ is a problem, please drop me a
 line.

 I object to the use of google anything.  That requires people to agree
 to their privacy policies in order to participate in OSM, and I think
 OSM should have a policy against such requirement or encouragement.
 (That said, I'm unlikely able to show up synchronously to things anyway.)

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Re: [Talk-us] Kathleen starting with community outreach for OSM-US

2012-12-18 Thread Kathleen Danielson

Hey Everyone--

I'm really excited to work more with the local OSM groups in the coming
weeks and months. My first plan is to do research on what communities are
already out there and figure out how OSM-US can be supporting each of you.
I'm also really interested in how the different local groups might connect
with each other as well back to the US Chapter itself. I'm really excited
to highlight the great work that all of you are doing, and share best
practices/lessons learned with other communities around the country.

Like Alex said, those of you who are running a local community should
expect to hear from me soon, but don't hesitate to reach out to me sooner
if you want to and get the conversation started!

KD


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:


 If you're running a local OSM community you'll probably hear soon from
 Kathleen (copied).

 Kathleen's going to start with community outreach for the OpenStreetMap US
 chapter. Her first goals will be to find out who's active where [1] and
 find good ways of featuring that on our calendar [2] and blog [3]. Showing
 what's going on in OSM in the US will be a great start for building more
 momentum here and inspire others to get out mapping. I'm sure there will be
 more good stuff we can do to grow and connect our communities better that
 we will find out in the course of her work.

 Kathleen's doing awesome work here in DC co-organizing the @Geo_DC meetups
 so I'm stoked that she is volunteering her skills for OSM-US work. Get in
 touch with her if you're interested in OSM community work and in general,
 never be shy to ask around if you'd like to start working on something in
 OSM but aren't quite sure where to start :) Aside from your local meetup
 [1], the virtual mappy hours [2] are a good place to meet more people or
 just drop me an email.

 [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States
 [2] http://www.openstreetmap.us/calendar/
 [3] http://openstreetmap.us/

 Kathleen on OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KathleenLD
 Kathleen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KathleenLD

 Alex Barth
 (OpenStreetMap US Secretary)
 http://twitter.com/lxbarth
 tel (+1) 202 250 3633





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Re: [Talk-us] Know of a local user group? Update the page!

2012-12-10 Thread Kathleen Danielson

I'd be interested in helping with this. What I lack in OSM prowess I like
to think I make up in online and offline community organization skills.
On Dec 10, 2012 6:39 PM, Jeff Meyer j...@gwhat.org wrote:

 Noticing how many of these user groups host sites outside of OSM, is there
 any update on making the OSM wiki more social / functional for local area
 community building? (followup to SOTM birds of a feather discussion)

 Seems suboptimal to have so much out of band activity without greater
 cross-community OSM social networking.

 Not saying it's broke, just could be better. : )

 - Jeff



 On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote:


 Hey everyone -

 If you're running / aware of a user group in your town, I'd love to ask
 you for a quick minute to update this page - thank you!

 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States

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Re: [Talk-us] Role of the Wiki

2012-12-05 Thread Kathleen Danielson


 *Some of these resources may require a
 little effort on your part, and they may not all be as well advertised
 **or interconnected as they should be,* but you have to realize that
 OpenStreetMap is eternally a work in progress, run entirely by
 volunteers who are working really hard to keep up with and channel
 that progress.


I think that the first half of that sentence is worth taking notice of,
with all due respect to the second half (and the volunteers who make it
so!). As a newcomer to OSM, I am aware that there are some really fantastic
resources out there, but I'm not really sure where to start, and that in
and of itself ends up being quite discouraging. Some more direction and
encouragement for new users could both help new mappers who share these
frustrations, as well as identify highest priority action items for
documentation improvement.

I gather there's a proposal for a new Welcome Working
Grouphttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rw/Proposal:Welcome_Working_Group,
and I think that this potential group has a lot to offer in this exact
area. I 100% understand how experienced users and contributors can feel
taxed by discussions like this, but I think there is a subset of members
who are eager to help onboard new mappers. Maybe this is a good time to
re-kickstart that proposal? Personally, I'm really excited to get involved
in this aspect of the OSM community.

(apologies if I'm missing any important context/discussions happening
elsewhere)

Best,
Kathleen

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:

 Some of these resources may require a
 little effort on your part, and they may not all be as well advertised
 or interconnected as they should be,

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Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-01 Thread Kathleen Danielson

I'm working on planning an event with the Parisian OSM gang, since I'll be
there on vacation, although I anticipate that just being a local OSM
meetup, rather than an outreach event.

Mostly because I don't speak French.

(Meeting with the Dutch and Belgian, and maybe even the English mappers the
previous week. #meetALLthemappers )
On Nov 1, 2012 11:17 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:

 I ran a workshop + mapping party at the University of Utah last year.
 Here's more: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geography_awareness_week

 On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Brian DeRocher br...@derocher.org wrote:
  Geography Awareness Week is November 11-17, 2012
 
 
 http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/collections/geographyawarenessweek
 
  My goal is to create a 20 minute OSM introduction / presentation to
 fellows
  geeks at my company about OpenStreetmap.  I'd like to make this
 presentation
  in a way that it's re-usable to other people in other companies.  Would
  anyone like to help?  Has this been done before?
 
  Brian
 
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