Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

2014-10-05 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 03/ott/2014, alle ore 21:23, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com ha scritto: It has nothing to do with being on the OSM US Board. I was on it for two years..we discussed editing, Neither of which had any bearing on that candidates experience with editing.

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

2014-10-05 Thread Randal Hale
Of Course! The entire priest example could fix many problems...but that is a longer discussion over drinks. The US is a huge place and OSM is still this thing people hear about and don't understand. I've taught two (by tomorrow) classes to GIS people on what OSM is and what it isn't. It's a

Re: [Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women

2014-10-05 Thread alyssa wright
By we I mean Mapzen! We are happy to be able to support this internship and follow the examples of many organizations in the open source geo space doing awesome work to increase diversity and respectful dialogue. Thanks, Alyssa. On Oct 4, 2014, at 7:49 AM, alyssa wright

Re: [Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women

2014-10-05 Thread Eric Brelsford
This is awesome! I believe the first link should be: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch Right? eric On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:31 PM, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote: By we I mean Mapzen! We are happy to be able to support this internship and

Re: [Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women

2014-10-05 Thread Alex Barth
Great! On Saturday, October 4, 2014, alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am pleased to announce that we are providing funding for an internship with HOT through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. This is an incredible organizations with proven success in bringing more

Re: [Talk-us] Outreach Program for Women

2014-10-05 Thread alyssa wright
Yes. Thanks! On Oct 5, 2014, at 3:47 PM, Eric Brelsford ebrelsf...@gmail.com wrote: This is awesome! I believe the first link should be: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch Right? eric On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:31 PM, alyssa wright

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

2014-10-05 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Alan, The number of edits a user names is a data point. For some people, it's an important data point, for others it may not be, but it's an interesting piece of information. By analogy, if this were a cyclist organization, I would hope that a board member had experience as a cyclist. The number

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

2014-10-05 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/5/2014 6:26 PM, Alan McConchie wrote: All of the candidates have made more than zero edits While true that all candidates have edited OSM at some point in the past, two of them have zero edits in the last year, and one of those has no US edits ever.[1] While a candidate may have other

Re: [Talk-us] Statistics of board candidate edits

2014-10-05 Thread Randal Hale
I will make an assumption (and forgive me if I'm wrong) that both candidates with 0 edits are female. I am basing this only on names and a rudimentary internet search. I think before both candidates answer that question - you need to define why they have a complete lack of OpenStreetMap