Hallo Nicolas, that's great news. More publicity is welcome.
Since I only experimented a bit with umap, QGIS and do some occasional OverPass query I won't be able to help you much with the seminars I fear. I hope there are more experienced users of those tools will chime in. However, I fear that most members of the community (this mailing list) are mappers, not data consumers. regards m p.s. do you know about http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/09/le-monde-adds-mapboxs-open-source-maps-to-its-new-website-to-highlight-where-news-is-happening/ ? On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Nicolas Pettiaux <nico...@pettiaux.be> wrote: > 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 : > > > * 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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