Dear,
As I told Julien, Gael (former president of OSM-fr) and Jo, I have been
meeting yesterday with journalists from LaLibre.be / the IPM media
group (also DH). La Libre Belgique (http://lalibre.be) is probably one
of the best French speaking newspaper.
I had met them at a crypto/datajournalisme party earlier and they came
back to me because they wanted to know more about OSM, how it worked
(especially the community), which tools we have, what we do, what we
provide, how to work with us ...
We spent more than 2 hours yesterday, checking many tools on osm.org
(location and the new routing ... that just lack the simple exchange of
the 2 positions and the possibility to add others I think) demoing and
editing onlide with id (eg introducing a tag
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3379643263 . By the way, is it
correct / complete ?)
In echange, the journalists have promised papers to inform the public
about the mapping party on April 25.
Most probably the journalists will also come to the party.
We have concluded with the following actions :
* they will send me a spreadsheet with georeferenced data and
informations (like for all communes in Belgium some data : population,
ages, wealth, ...) that the would like us to examine and put in a map
based on OSM
* we (they and us) will get in touch and organize a set of seminars
with the Association des journalistes to teach journalists (experienced
and students / trainees) how to use the many OSM tools and programs,
and if possible, how to code in python/java when you are a
datajournalist)
For such seminars, which will span beginners to advanced users, I will
heavily rely on you, my dear fellows from OSM-be.
I told the journalists that I consider that if the data and the tools
are free (as in speech and beer), most of the times, our times are NOT.
And that they will have to find a way to compensate us and most
probably pay the speakers for OSM (or our association for us to gather
some funds).
Which Flemisch journalists / editors could we also contact ? Who is
ready to help me in such an endeavor ?
We should start organizing in the wiki some info : who is capable of
teaching what.
best regards,
Nicolas
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