osm-community-show-n-tell.md

Things to remember

• Find the singal in the noise, and respond clearly
• Take a contribution posture
• Provide evidence of our work and experience
• Ask for help from the team
• ...

What's up with the OSM community??

• OSM has always been awful place to communicate. Open source software culture. Northern European Programming Dudes.
  • Comms have not scaled.
• OSM is smart people who thrive on recognition over their smartness and contribution.
  • Allow them to be heard
• Most "trolls" don't know how awful they come across online.
  • Some do, and are not worth our time.
• OSM "Volunteers" but increasingly not.
  • 6 of 7 OSMF Board Members involved in OSM in their job.
• Fear of commercial entity using the OSM community, but not giving back. ODbL. Mapbox scepticism.
• ...

Where do we communicate in OSM?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels

• Mailing lists
  • subscribe to talk@ and talk-in@
  • some countries prefer Forums
• IRC
  • http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC
  • jump in, bring a buddy
• Diary Posts
• Mapbox Blog Posts
• WeeklyOSM
  • read it!
• Twitter
  • http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_centric_Twitter_accounts
• Facebook
• ...

Where do we find communities?

• https://vimeo.com/68093881
• http://brainoff.com/weblog/2012/03/30/1773 Other ways of finding communities (tools and analysis approaches)

Communication Guidance

Mapping Project Guide

• Clap threshhold for tweets.
  • if you want, ask on Slack for review before posting.
• Diary posts
  • these can be rough, translated in your local language
  • tweet your own diary posts
• Blog posts
  • Whenever you ship, does this need to be heard by a wider audience?

Engineering / How we can contribute

osm-comments

Hackday Ideas

Collaborations and Contributions

• Collaborations with Telenav and Mapzen on data QA https://github.com/mapbox/data/issues/1598
• Contribute to SysOps https://github.com/mapbox/data/issues/1595

• there are so many great people in the OSM community, find them
• we are an agent for change in the OSM community. set the example of what you want to see
• don't feed the trolls
• speak in 1st person, avoid 3rd person
• show that we are building things together
• notes
  • make sure notes are quality
  • pick up good stories
  • work with uk community allies to acculturate to our approach
  • review notes for quality ... we don't need to post everything. diary post our criteria for posting notes. can talk about that.

** diary our notes approach after osm-comments is launched **

• track traffic from map-feedback into osm sign ups
• work with team member to help with response, rather than having someone else step in

John Firebaugh talk fro SotMUS 2014
https://vimeo.com/91877574

• repeat yourself, don't assume they have the context