Re: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!
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 -- *From:* Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com *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, Kathleen ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!
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 * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron -- *From:* Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com *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, Kathleen ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Happy Birthday, OSM-- let's have a Birthday Sprint!
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 From: Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com 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.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, Kathleen ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[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.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, Kathleen ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
