Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
My idea was to write letters to the editors of all the local newspapers, in each letter we would tell the about the map and invite them to look at the local map of thier area I wrote a script to automate the usage of the press center : http://capwiz.com/aauw/dbq/media/ here is the code, you can use that to send ca. 5000 letters http://fmtyewtk.blogspot.com/2011/05/script-to-write-letters-to-editors.html thanks, mike On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to support the community and help spread the word. One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why people should care to contribute. From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it only extends its offer to UK. So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US, although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better first. There is at least one English language flyer around. If I recall the biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings from a US address. Is somebody willing to do that? ideally, the volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
Am 29.05.2011 15:49, schrieb Mike Dupont:
My idea was to write letters to the editors of all the local
newspapers, in each letter we would tell the about the map and invite
them to look at the local map of thier area
I wrote a script to automate the usage of the press center :
http://capwiz.com/aauw/dbq/media/
here is the code, you can use that to send ca. 5000 letters
http://fmtyewtk.blogspot.com/2011/05/script-to-write-letters-to-editors.html
Sounds like a good idea. But wouldn't it better to make it a bit more
distributed and personal? To my experience the local reporters like
personal stories and somebody as main actor for the whoel story
('somebody out of our middles does this and that').
For that kind of working, we created a german press kit, that reporters
like very much (got some feedback). If you would say that PR works
similar in US, I might ask the folks to translate the press kit to
english, so you can adapt it.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pressemappe
(still not sure if this might get in conflict with a personal press
portal for GB for instance...)
cheers
Matthias
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Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
Hi, Kai Krueger wrote: Yes I too think a few tweeks to make it more US centric would be good, though, to make sure it attracts people in the US with their needs. I'm willing to either (a) take suggestions on what should be changed (note that for the English-language flyer we already rotated the globe on the front page to show the US, assuming that the flyer would be used on both sides of the Atlantic...) and make the changes myself, or (b) send someone the SVG and let them work it in Inkscape (I believe it's in SVN already but would have to check if that is the latest version). Then, for producing the flyer, there's the option of having our publisher sponsor it (condition - our book mentioned in about the same way it is now); this would mean that someone in the US would have the flyer printed (I'd advise on which online print shop to use and so on), take delivery of the goods, invoice our publisher for printing cost plus a shipping advance, then send out the flyers in small(er) quantities to interested members of the US community - all the operational details e.g. how often shipped, what quantities etc. would be at the discretion of whoever does it. - This is the mode we're using in England. Or alternatively, do it without our publisher, just print whatever you want, wherever you want, and let OSMF-US pay for it. I have nothing against the original flyer being used as a basis for that if someone wants to. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
Thea Aldrich wrote: My two cents about the flyers. I really like the one produced by GeoFabrik. However, it might be nice to make a few tweeks to that model so its more US centric and plays better in this market. But thats just me... Great. Yes I too think a few tweeks to make it more US centric would be good, though, to make sure it attracts people in the US with their needs. -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Ideas-for-OSMF-US-Swag-tp6408754p6414252.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
On 5/26/2011 5:09 PM, Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? Just to toss out some ideas: A refrigerator magnet in the shape of a US map. A Map Cap ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to support the community and help spread the word. One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why people should care to contribute. From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it only extends its offer to UK. So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US, although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better first. Kai [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Flyers_and_posters [2] http://www.openstreetmap.de/aktionen.html [3] http://shop.opencyclemap.org/products/openstreetmap-promotional-leaflets -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Ideas-for-OSMF-US-Swag-tp6408754p6411371.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to support the community and help spread the word. One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why people should care to contribute. From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it only extends its offer to UK. So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US, although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better first. There is at least one English language flyer around. If I recall the biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings from a US address. Is somebody willing to do that? ideally, the volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
Richard is right, there is an English language flyer. I believe Frederik Ramm has it. If someone can volunteer to mail it that would be great. I'm home less than 50% of the year so I don't think I'm the right person. -Kate On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to support the community and help spread the word. One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why people should care to contribute. From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it only extends its offer to UK. So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US, although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better first. There is at least one English language flyer around. If I recall the biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings from a US address. Is somebody willing to do that? ideally, the volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests. ___ 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] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
I'd be happy to do some mailing. I don't have a whole lot of room to store boxes of pamphlets in my apartment, but I could do a few batches. On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Richard is right, there is an English language flyer. I believe Frederik Ramm has it. If someone can volunteer to mail it that would be great. I'm home less than 50% of the year so I don't think I'm the right person. -Kate On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to support the community and help spread the word. One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why people should care to contribute. From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it only extends its offer to UK. So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US, although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better first. There is at least one English language flyer around. If I recall the biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings from a US address. Is somebody willing to do that? ideally, the volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests. ___ 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 mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
I'm in the same boat as Ian with limited space in my apartment, but I'd love to help out with the mailing. -- Jim McAndrew On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be happy to do some mailing. I don't have a whole lot of room to store boxes of pamphlets in my apartment, but I could do a few batches. On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Richard is right, there is an English language flyer. I believe Frederik Ramm has it. If someone can volunteer to mail it that would be great. I'm home less than 50% of the year so I don't think I'm the right person. -Kate On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Thea Aldrich wrote: Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? I think it is a great idea and is the sort of thing a local chapter can be useful for to support the community and help spread the word. One thing that would imho be useful is to create flyers [1] to hand out to people who haven't heard about OSM to explain what OSM is about and why people should care to contribute. From what I have gathered, the German flyer [2] has been quite a success with apparently 40.000 flyers printed and distributed to date. There is now also an English flyer which the UK chapter distributes for free [3], but it only extends its offer to UK. So perhaps OSMF-US could print and distribute a similar flyer in the US, although it might be good to adapt it to fit the needs of the US better first. There is at least one English language flyer around. If I recall the biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings from a US address. Is somebody willing to do that? ideally, the volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests. ___ 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 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] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
I have room at my house and plenty of experience mailing OSM swag out to people. I guess I should have been more clear. I totally would not have suggested we get swag and mail it to people if I wasn't willing to do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Though I do think it would be nice if we had a few volunteers from around the country shipping regionally. But we'll handle that farther down the road. Right now I just want to focus on picking awesome swag that people think will help mappers grow their local communities. Also, just to be clear, OSM-US can only afford to mail swag to people in the US. International postage rates end up making the cost of shipping more than the stuff we are sending. My two cents about the flyers. I really like the one produced by GeoFabrik. However, it might be nice to make a few tweeks to that model so its more US centric and plays better in this market. But thats just me... Thea ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
I'd be glad to help out with pamphlets. And yes, we'll want to make tweaks to localize the document for a US audience. I'd be happy to take a crack at that. Jim, perhaps we should consider eventually posting softcopy with GeoBus materials? -- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 14:54, Thea Aldrich theaglit...@gmail.com wrote: I have room at my house and plenty of experience mailing OSM swag out to people. I guess I should have been more clear. I totally would not have suggested we get swag and mail it to people if I wasn't willing to do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Though I do think it would be nice if we had a few volunteers from around the country shipping regionally. But we'll handle that farther down the road. Right now I just want to focus on picking awesome swag that people think will help mappers grow their local communities. Also, just to be clear, OSM-US can only afford to mail swag to people in the US. International postage rates end up making the cost of shipping more than the stuff we are sending. My two cents about the flyers. I really like the one produced by GeoFabrik. However, it might be nice to make a few tweeks to that model so its more US centric and plays better in this market. But thats just me... Thea ___ 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] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2011 12:09:20 -0400 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: There is at least one English language flyer around. If I recall the biggest hold up is that nobody volunteered to do the actual mailings from a US address. Is somebody willing to do that? ideally, the volunteer would send out flyers each week in response to the requests. Yes. The flyer is a direct translation of the German one. It is distributed in the UK by Andy Allan through his OpenCycleMap shop, free of charge for everyone; printing and shipping are sponsored by the publisher of our OSM book which gets a mention in the flyer. Our publisher is willing to do the same but it would need one person in the US to take delivery of the flyers and distribute them further. If anyone is interested, please get in touch. - Of course, OSMF US is also free to style their own flyer based on our layout and not use the publisher's sponsoring offer; I can make the SVGs available if anyone is interested. Bye Frederik ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Ideas for OSMF US Swag
Hi US Mappers, We are looking for ways OSMF US can help mappers who are interested in throwing mapping parties, conducting outreach activities and bringing more people into the community. The most frequent request we get is for OSM branded materials that can be given out at mapping and speaking events. We have obtained a great discount from a vendor and would like to purchase things like pens, stickers, etc. Our idea is that when a community member throws an event, they can contact us and we will mail the supplies to them free of charge. Our question to the community is: If you like this idea, what types of branded materials would you like? Thanks, Thea Clay, for the OSMF US Board ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
