Thanks for the feedback Andy! The community index project will surely evolve as we learn what kinds of things are helpful for both end users and community organizers. The goal is for users who are just getting started with editing to realize that they are part of something larger.
This represents a deliberate shift in focus from self-centered language we currently use in iD “Share your edit on Facebook/Twitter” to more community-centric language like “There are people around where you edited that care about what you are doing - say hi on Reddit or stop by this month's Meetup”. It would not surprise me if the locations of OSM with the highest quality are also the parts of OSM with the strongest community and best attended meetups. One thing I can do right now to make the osm-community-index project less confusing is to say exactly what we are currently collecting. This list has grown a few times in the last week, and I need to move it up front as the first thing people see. type - (required) Type of community resource. The following types are supported: "discourse" "facebook" "forum" - For example, on forum.openstreetmap.org "group" - Generic catchall for anything with a url (such as a local OSM chapter page) "irc" - url should be a clickable web join link, server details can go in description "mailinglist" - url should be a link to the listinfo page, e.g. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us "meetup" "reddit" "slack" - url should link to the Slack itself, and signupUrl can link to an inviter service (see example above) "telegram" "twitter" So you asked how you can help! Please collect any of the above things and add them to GitHub tickets 🙏 In your email you mentioned some osm wiki pages that contain a lot of meetup links - I’d do those first... Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 2, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 31/03/18 13:25, Bryan Housel wrote: >> I’ve started building an index of OSM community resources here: >> https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index >> <https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index> >> >> "Resources" can be links to forums, meetups, Slack groups, Facebook groups, >> mailing lists, and so on. Anything that mappers, especially beginners, might >> find interesting or helpful. >> >> > > I think that's an excellent idea - quite often I'd like to recommend > something to a mapper in a country that I'm not familiar with, and it can be > difficult to do that if you're unfamiliar with the local community (and > especially if they're using non-open communication channels that can be less > easy to "just drop in on"). > > However I'm a bit confused about what sort of contributions you want - > https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/issues/new > <https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/issues/new> loads a template > that seems to be looking for something in Markdown format (one per resource) > with a geojson file (I think - it's really not clear). I'd be happy to > provide information that you could use to create the content you want, but > I've no idea how to provide what the site seems to be asking for (and I > suspect I won't be alone in that). > > For example, for GB I'd suggest: > > o That international resources such as the help site and the wiki are likely > to be the first best point of contact > > o That the most commonly used local resource is probably the talk-gb mailing > list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb> (but note that the part of > the UK that is on the island of Ireland is best served by > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie>), and there's also > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-scotland > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-scotland> and other regional > lists. > > o That there's usually someone able to respond to "ad hoc" questions in > #osm-gb on IRC (but I'd link to that via http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/IRC > <http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/IRC> as other international channels may be > relevant too). > > o There are regular meetups in at least London > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London#Upcoming_Events > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London#Upcoming_Events> , > Scotland,https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Edinburgh#Social_Events> , West Midlands > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Meetings > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia#Meetings>, and East > Midlandshttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup> . > > o There's a "loomio" site (accessible from > https://osmuk.org/pinned/join-the-conversation/ > <https://osmuk.org/pinned/join-the-conversation/>) associated with the OSMF > chapter in the UK https://osmuk.org/ <https://osmuk.org/> , although that is > very low volume right now (though that may change, of course). > > There are also I'm sure a bunch of twitter accounts associated with > individuals and groups - but I'd hesitate to try and sort the wheat from the > chaff there. I'm sure I'll have missed stuff too (and another person's list > of resources might differ from my subjective list. > > Is that sort of information useful? > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
