Hi, Are you a local OSM community organizer? Are you coming to State of the Map? Now is your time to shine!
After the OSM Awards ceremony, we're going to have a little panel discussion about what works and doesn't work for local community organizers; about your successes, challenges and dilemmas. First we gave the chance to people who submitted a talk about their own local community experiences, but we'd like to do some last minute expansion of candidates. Here's the three main questions we'd like to talk about: A) What do you consider the most important lesson learnt in your own efforts to build a local mapping community? What worked for you or did not work when trying to expand your community. B) Are there dilemma's or challenges you face about which you would like to get other people's opinions? C) How could the global OSM community help you? For example in helping with the challenges you face. But also making sure the lessons you learned don't have to be re-learned over and over again. Or in scaling up the solutions you found (e.g. make a global tool for something you use locally). There will also be a Local Chapters congress. That's kind of a similar idea, but you could see that as more about formal, national or regional organisation. This mail is more about building the informal networks that make that kind of organisation possible. So you don't have to be doing Big Things to be a valid candidate for the panel. And I'm interested in your opinion, even if you can't or won't be on the panel. -- Joost @ Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/>
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
