OSMF Working Groups

Communication CWG best known for…. blog.openstreetmap.org @openstreetmap

Voice of the foundation Fun, Positive, "Journalistic" Fun vs Serious.

Communication

•  Factual correctness. •  Promoting the right things. •  License & usage policies compliance. •  Announcements timing

•  Meetings to discuss comms •  Decision making •  Forming comms policy

CWG Helpers?

Communication

Everything is “Communication”

Mailing list moderation

Wiki Cleanup

Documentation

Q&A support

T-shirts, Leaflets, Posters

Front page design

Press releases

Tutorial/promotional videos

Campaigns (switch2osm)

Common visual language

Data

Mostly acts when shit has already happened:

•  copyright violations •  vandalism •  conflicts between mappers •  violations of “mechanical edit” and

data import rules

Data

Tools and methods:

•  question users, mediate in conflicts •  investigate, revert edits •  block users •  may also recommend long-term bans

Data

Pre-emptive tasks: •  (help) create policies/guidelines •  monitor edits •  (help) harden API against future

troublesome edits

License

•  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator)

●  Solve real-life problems in a calm, logical manner.

●  License + Contributor Terms = Constitution ●  Input your interpretation, ●  (slowly!) work to reach practical consensus.

License

I joined and stayed because I want ...

1.  to have my contributions used when I dead;

2.  to protect the project from legal risks;

3.  to make it easy for folks to use our data.

License

We are looking for ...

•  Core members o  Reasonable level of English o  Join a telephone conference every two weeks o  Take one/two action items o  Collaboratively work on issues over a period of time.

•  Friends o  Work on what just on what frustrates you, o  or Just join us from time to time. o  Folks outside western Europe/USA/Canada

especially welcome.

Local Chapters

•  Started in 2011 and fizzled out •  Need for formalizing the relationship

between the local chapters (and probably other local groups) is however not really disputed

Local Chapters

•  Restarting this year •  Work items (short term)

o  Finding a chair for the group (not from the OSMF nomenclatura)

o  Defining the requirements for a local chapter o  Finalize draft agreement between local chapters and

OSMF

Operations

•  Tom Hughes •  Grant Slater •  Matt Amos •  Jon Burgess •  Sarah Hoffmann •  Andy Allan •  Emilie Laffray

Operations

Here be Dragons

bunyip draco errol eustace faffy fume gorynych grisu idris *ironbelly jakelong katla konqi lurien *nadder-01 *nadder-02 nepomuk norbert orm ouroboros poldi ramoth ridgeback ridley sarel shenron smaug spike-01 spike-02 spike-03 tabaluga thorn-01 thorn-02 thorn-03 trogdor urmel yevaud zark

Total: 38

SotM

Organising the annual State of the Map conference •  2007 - Manchester •  2008 - Limerick •  2009 - Amsterdam •  2010 - Girona •  2011 - Denver •  2012 - Tokyo •  2013 - Birmingham •  2014 - ????

SotM

Preparation

•  Venue / Catering (local team)

•  Program

•  Sponsors

•  Communication

During conference

•  Hands-on running of the conference

SotM

•  It’s hard work •  Getting more stressful when conference getting near

•  It’s very rewarding to see people enjoying a great conference