Paul - good points. I said "wiki" and meant the "Social" elements of the OSM site - e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pnorman.
Agreed - standard wikis aren't the best for community building. -Jeff On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > I’d say the wiki is likely the least used of the various channels for > local OSM communities. Because as part of the DWG I’ve had to contact local > communities in various ways I’ve seen (in some kind of rough order > resembling popularity)**** > > ** ** > > **- **Mailing lists**** > > **- **OSM.org forums**** > > **- **Facebook**** > > **- **Google groups**** > > **- **Other forums**** > > ** ** > > I don’t see the wiki used very often and I don’t think the wiki format is > well-suited for a community to use to communicate.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jeff Meyer [mailto:j...@gwhat.org] > *Sent:* Monday, December 10, 2012 3:38 PM > *To:* Alex Barth > *Cc:* talk-us@openstreetmap.org Talk > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-us] Know of a local user group? Update the page!**** > > ** ** > > Noticing how many of these user groups host sites outside of OSM, is there > any update on making the OSM wiki more social / functional for local area > community building? (followup to SOTM birds of a feather discussion)**** > > ** ** > > Seems suboptimal to have so much out of band activity without greater > cross-community OSM social networking.**** > > ** ** > > Not saying it's broke, just could be better. : )**** > > ** ** > > - Jeff**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote:**** > > > Hey everyone - > > If you're running / aware of a user group in your town, I'd love to ask > you for a quick minute to update this page - thank you! > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States > > Alex Barth > http://twitter.com/lxbarth > tel (+1) 202 250 3633 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us**** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > Jeff Meyer > Global World History Atlas > www.gwhat.org > j...@gwhat.org > 206-676-2347 > > **** > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org j...@gwhat.org 206-676-2347
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