Hi there, I would organize a local mapathon for a specific project that people are interested. Lets map X that you care about.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > Martijn's recent diary post "How can we double the number of active mappers > in the US in a year?" has an interesting proposition, rather than one big > annual Meetup, we hold smaller regional meetups. The problem is that the big > meetup doesn't produce more mappers. I've attended three SOTM-US > conferences. Common to the three I've attended is the small number of active > mappers. I wonder what percentage of attendees are active mappers? My sense > is that it is small. I don't doubt that a great number of attendees have > made an edit or two. But most are either users of the data or supporters of > OSM, not contributors. Certainly most don't go back home figure out how to > build a OSM community. > > Before we can tackle mapper growth, let's collect data to help quantify the > problem. Let's survey mappers to find out what got them here and why they > stay. Further, let's attempt to contact mappers that have be absent to find > out why. We should also reach out to Meetup organizers to find what works, > what doesn't and what additional tools they need. For example, we have an > active Meetup group in Seattle. But we need more help contacting new > mappers. Currently the only why is to manually look for new mappers. We need > better tools. When we conduct mapping parties, it would be nice to have > handouts to give businesses. > > Some other crazy suggestions: > Partner with incident response teams and create a tool to people to map > their neighborhood. [2] > Fund people to travel and give talks at events > Reduce the cost of admission to SOTM-US. Substantially increase the number > of scholarships and lower the bar to getting a scholarship. > > Martijn has given us an excellent goal. I hope the Board decides to adopt > this is one of its priorities. > > We have a chance to influence future of the US Chapter by voting for > candidates that will focus on increasing the number of active mappers in the > US. Remember, we are voting for a position of leadership, not who is the > best mapper. Please ignore the silly suggestions coming from across the pond > and vote for the best people to Lead OSM in the US. > > > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/36087 > [2] > http://mil.wa.gov/emergency-management-division/preparedness/map-your-neighborhood > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- James Michael DuPont Kansas Linux Fest http://kansaslinuxfest.us Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas http://openkansas.us Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
