Hi Some big dream community stuff could be great at SOTM and for OSM. Pardon me if this is done already. Ive attended some workshops & birds of a feather events on this at SOTM -US on this topic plus been reading for a few years and attending local events when I can)
Some ideas Stages BEFORE, Collect Data do a digital network map of all the interests of mappers (common tags) and location (eg. Helipads and railways; Togo and Japan) Martin Dittus did this for missing maps, Mark Graham just did this for wikipedia. Have a strong think on how OSM can grow. Look at how communities grow in open source allies : mozilla, ubuntu, wikipedia. Compare the OSM community needs on how they wish to grow. Take a look at global community thinking http://www.communityroundtable.com/research/community-maturity-model/ During Host an interactive first roadmap session on how to keep organically growing OSM while being super realistic on what are some of the gaps/hurdles/opportunity. Plan working group activities to shine globally tied to and supporting the local OSMer with some resources and love (very lightweight) (See aspirationtech.org for details on how to.) After Keep working on this digitally to get more people involved and improve it. Checkin at SOTM and online to see if this works for you. One thing that I will say is that I love this community's efforts and volunteer within HOT. I see these small things as potential productive next steps. OSM has natural leaders but no formal program to support their growth like Ubuntu or Mozilla. Ive attended the Community Leadership Summit at OSCON and met many leaders from Mongo to Red Hat to Libre Office. This is their top priority to support participation,learning, growth and diversity. My time has been very hard because my skills that are voluntary gifted are sometimes viewed as less important or deemed as not valuable enough to be a leader. This is very disheartening because open source thrives when communities are strong with many diverse skilled people and plans to thank/mentor people. Yes, OSM can be a Starfish and Spider (yess this book) but a little plan to go with organic grow might help many thrive. Thanks for reading Heather On 2 Dec 2015 16:26, "Steve Coast" <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > > I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has become. > > I’m curious what people here think of the idea? > > Best > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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