Chris
* Remote searches aren't guaranteed to be accurate. Therefore you're
probably missing posts. I do all the time.
* There are lots of search terms, OSM, openstreetmap, #openstreetmap,
open streetmap, open street map ... Therefore you're probably missing posts.
* Chicken and egg. No OSM answers supplied today - so why would there be
lots of questions?
Personally I want the OSM attitude to be "that's a fun idea, let's try
it". This costs us basically nothing, if it doesn't work we can kill it.
With a bit of luck though, it will result in more mapping.
Steve
On 9/8/2011 8:43 AM, Chris Fleming wrote:
On 08/09/2011 00:20, SteveC wrote:
There are a bunch of people asking things on twitter about OSM that
we miss. Or people saying nice things that we should be retweeting.
I'm looking for a solution. Mozilla has this:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/army-of-awesome
and I'm in touch with them to see if the src is available.
I have a saved openstreetmap twitter search and keep an eye on it. I
think only twice I've actually replied to people looking for help on
opensteetmap most of it's people talking about osm or various bots.
Have I missed something here?
Although I can't see setting up the mozilla army of awesome doing any
harm, although excluding various OSM bots will be needed. Helping
people into the community isn't a bad thing; most people won't signup
the first time they land on the openstreetmap page, and once they've
signed up it may be some time before they edit. One regular at our
Edinburgh meetups signed up after seeing a talk I did, but didn't
start to edit for 2 years.
So, using channels to remind people and about OSM and give them a
gentle push in the right direction won't do any harm; and a
professional use of twitter is just part of that.
The @OpenStreetMap account has over 6000 followers (although a good
number are certainly spam) and I would like to see a bit more posting
than when there is a blog posting and the occasional retweet. So
interesting press coverage or uses of OSM, etc.
Cheers
Chris
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