Thanks Mike for inviting me to talk here. I spent nearly all of last year working upstairs in this office, and until recently, I was the only San Francisco Mapbox employee -- most of the team is in DC. Having the fellows and incubators around made what could have been an isolating experience vibrant and interesting. So I'm grateful for the opportunity to talk about what I did last year and what I learned doing it.
I spent last year working on an editor for OpenStreetMap and on the design and functionality of OpenStreetMap.org. I'm going to talk a little bit and at a high level about the technical side of it -- enough to give you an idea of what our goals were -- but most of this talk is about the human side, about community management and open source stewardship.
And I'm talking about my experiences working with and in the OpenStreetMap community specifically, but hopefully in a general enough way that you can see how they could apply to other communities -- be they other open source projects, or civic comm