Paul & list, Interesting point. The most recent (and only) survey of OSM contributors that I'm aware of is the survey put together last spring by Severin Menard to measure motivations of those contributing to HOT/OSM.[1] It asks for very little by way of demographic characteristics (e.g. race, income, nationality, religion, native language, etc.)
It could be very useful to get a demographic profile of OSM contributors including, but not limited to, religious orientation. It could help us, collectively, to be more sensitive to the needs of our existing community and inform where we need to do a better job of outreach. [1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17UqPpQi1TAgzAvYtB5iKR42mUotw0n2FzyLmW-r98Gs/viewform?edit_requested=true -- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > Is anyone aware of any statistics about religious diversity of OSM > contributors? > > I know on the default style we did some work to add more religious icons > for places of worship about a year ago, and the language diversity work I > did probably also helped, but I don't know of any real outreach that's been > done. > > Anecdotally, it's an issue. I've heard of major events scheduled on > religious holidays, a lack of Kosher food options, and thinking back to the > previous SOTM-US conferences, I don't know if they had a quiet place for > daily prayer for those who needed one. Admittedly, I didn't ask about the > latter, so there may have been facilities available on request. > > I'd like some solid numbers, and don't know of any studies which have > tackled this. Is anyone aware of some? > > _______________________________________________ > diversity-talk mailing list > diversity-talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/diversity-talk >
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