2014-09-08 20:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com>: > On 9/8/2014 11:18 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: >> >> it has been some days that, when I visit openstreetmap.org, I am shown >> a nice box reminding me that SoTM is coming soon (see screenshot[1]), >> is there a way to use this system to promote local events (say local >> State of the Map conferences?). > > There are two issues with this. First, a technical one - no one has written > the code to do so. This is, for obvious reasons, an absolute hard > requirement. > > The second one is a policy one, on what to show, and to whom. SOTM is easy, > as it's an OSMF event. It'd probably be annoying and dilute the value of the > spot if there was a banner there the majority of the time. Including past > non-OSMF events on the front page has been contentious, but we now have a > Local Chapters template agreement, which might make that easier as we could > tie that in, now having a definition for a local chapter.
Both are absolutely good points, for the first one can I suggest to use the same system that is used on Wikimedia websites? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice Cristian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk