[Talk-us] Help with OSM Presentation
I'm doing a presentation at Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA in hopes to gain new mappers. To help me with the presentation, I'd like to hear from you. Below are some questions - answer all or just a few. What do you enjoy most about OpenStreetMap? What about OSM surprised you most? What do you tell people when they ask you why you map? What is should I absolutely not leave out of the presentation? Thanks, Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Help with OSM Presentation
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > I'm doing a presentation at Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA in hopes > to gain new mappers. To help me with the presentation, I'd like to hear from > you. Below are some questions - answer all or just a few. > > What about OSM surprised you most? The amazing diversity in the interests of new contributors. I meet new OpenStreetMap contributors every month, and the interest that brings them in to meet us differ widely. > What is should I absolutely not leave out of the presentation? 1) "Go outside and survey your neighbourhood. There is nothing better that you can do for OpenStreetMap, than behave as though you are tending a shared garden." 2) Time for questions. I have trouble with this because I like to talk. :-) 3) "It's Fun. It's Free. You can help." One of the earliest tag lines used in the project. True then. true now. For the Linuxfest audience, you might want to add something about the hundreds (or thousands) of F/LOSS projects that intersect with the OpenStreetMap project. You certainly can't be expert about all of them, or event list them, but the Linuxfest audience will want to be reassured that they can probably find a library for their preferred development environment. Break a leg! ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Help with OSM Presentation
Clifford, Kudos to you for stepping up to deliver a presentation about OpenStreetMap! > What is should I absolutely not leave out of the presentation? The *big problem* that OSM solves. For a Linux audience this shouldn't be difficult, but I would still state that most other map sources are not truly "free" - and say a little bit about why that is a problem. > What do you tell people when they ask you why you map? Mapping in OSM is a form of free expression (really a broad form of free speech), just like blogging, editing a Wikipedia article, or creating a video. In the past editors a publishers decided what got mapped, now - with OpenStreetMap - we can decide. Mike On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > I'm doing a presentation at Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA in hopes > to gain new mappers. To help me with the presentation, I'd like to hear > from you. Below are some questions - answer all or just a few. > > > What do you enjoy most about OpenStreetMap? > > > What about OSM surprised you most? > > > What do you tell people when they ask you why you map? > > > What is should I absolutely not leave out of the presentation? > > > > Thanks, > Clifford > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > ___ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Help with OSM Presentation
Thanks for the responses to my request for help. I received a number of answers that replied to the mailing list and others that replied to me privately. For those "public" answers, I've summarized them on my blog. http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us/articles/LinuxfestNW/ It not to late to answer these questions: What do you enjoy most about OpenStreetMap? What about OSM surprised you most? What do you tell people when they ask you why you map? What is should I absolutely not leave out of the presentation? Thanks, Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
