Spreading the word through talks/workshops at existing groups
Jez Nicholson
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The recent AGM + guesting at the Open Data Manchester Meetup worked well. We spread the word about OSM without the effort of booking a venue, drumming up attendees, providing refreshments, etc. The Directors suggested that to increase exposure for 2018-19 we should find other groups (ODI Nodes, Open Data/Programming/Data Visualisation/User Experience) and do guest appearance talks and workshops tailored to their niche.
My questions are: a) do you think it's a good idea? b) any suggestions of groups? c) what are the down sides? d) should we publish a workshop syllabus/outline/materials so that others can present one? e) other ideas
Harry Wood Thu 7 Jun 2018 5:14PM
heh! Way to disprove my point! Glad you found my slides useful :-D ... Well actually as I said before: using people's images... individual images... maybe that the useful thing. Also diagrams. We should draw more diagrams more often!
RobJN Sat 9 Jun 2018 2:06PM
Yep, @harrywood your "Gathering/Editing" diagram is great. It really simplifies the message of how to contribute to OSM. I'm not sure I'd lay it out quite the same, but the concept of the 2 tasks is spot on :-)
Gregory Marler (former Director) Thu 28 Jun 2018 12:44PM
Slides from 4 of my talks are now downloadable on my blog. They're all somewhat variations of each other.
Jez Nicholson Thu 28 Jun 2018 12:49PM
Excellent. Thank you.
I'm doing a talk next week about Amazon Alexa so am using some data from OSM and slipping in a slide about it.
Gregory Marler (former Director) · Thu 7 Jun 2018 12:06PM
@harrywood I threw your "Gathering/Editing" diagram into a slide on a talk I gave yesterday. Thanks.
I spoke at University of Durham Computer Science Research Day. Trying to cover: OSM intro, How to use the Data, advice/rules for doing research, and recent research highlights - very difficult to do in 15 minutes!
Earlier in the day they also had me speak on the title of "Striving for a welcoming environment", which started from the basis of State of the Map (and the Code of Conduct we implemented) but the bulk of the content and the end-point wasn't focused on SotM or OSM.
I'll put slides online once I tidy up the notes.