I met with local wikpedians today and was impressed with the local events they hold around specific topics. For example they are having a women in architecture event tomorrow in like 7-10 places simultaneously. They were excited to coordinate something with OSM U.S. I think this is a really powerful topic especially considering the diverse audience it touched and was just representative of one of the many angles on how they approach the value of community and contribution. It might be good for us to follow up for more regional penetration. And I hope to attend some of the NYC all day event.
> On Oct 14, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
