<div dir="ltr">I don't have the numbers off hand. It was a minority of the ~70 identified though. <div><br></div><div>We identified the top 50 mappers by changesets and the top 50 mappers by changes, discounted for bots and then offered a 50 % discount code to each anybody who was in at least one of those two groups (about 70 individuals).</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/special-invitation-to-top-mappers/">http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/special-invitation-to-top-mappers/</a><br><div><br></div><div>Lessons we learned:</div><div>
<br></div><div>- This was real work. Between creating the ranking, the map and sending out emails this was more than 1 full day.</div><div>- We should have done this before opening ticket sales. Some of the people we reached out to had already signed up.</div>
<div>- This was a useful additional data point for scholarships. At least one of the top mappers applied for a scholarship.</div><div>- I wish more top mappers had come out, doing this earlier might have helped to encourage them to apply for a scholarship.</div>
<div>- I think we should do this again. It's a really great way to build personal relationships with the most prolific contributors to OSM.</div><div>- Overall volume contributed is a very fuzzy indicator. But I also don't want to overthink this. If someone's a really great mapper or otherwise contributor to OSM, suggest them for a scholarship! Or in other words, discounts for volume contributors won't take you all the way. </div>
<div><div> </div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org" target="_blank">m@rtijn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Mark Iliffe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@markiliffe.co.uk" target="_blank">mark@markiliffe.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">As for a membership based on edits, this discounts those that have worked on the wiki, server and other elements of our wider community. These elements are much harder to quantify in terms of effort and contribution, however, are vital to drive the editing of the map. </blockquote>
</div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">I appreciate that concern. We did something similar here this year, and I will explain why. For SOTM US, we identified the top 50 mappers based on a few months of changesets[1]. We realized this method would not necessarily identify other U.S. community members who have been exceedingly valuable in other ways. To alleviate that concern, we had the scholarships[2] which really nicely filled that void. <br>
<br>The reason why we really want to give a discount to the most prolific mappers was threefold. Firstly, we did (and do) not know many of them in person, and we wanted them to be a more visible part of our community by taking away some of the barriers to attend a major OSM social. Secondly, the blog post gave a level of public recognition that these very prolific mappers had never gotten, at least not in the U.S. as far as I know. Lastly, we wanted the SOTM US crowd to be as complete as possible a representation of the U.S. community, and we felt this incentive would contribute to that objective.<br>
<br>Alex (cc), do you have figures on how many actually took advantage of this incentive?<br><br>[1] <a href="http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/special-invitation-to-top-mappers/" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/special-invitation-to-top-mappers/</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">[2] <a href="http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/scholarships-state-of-the-map-us/" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/scholarships-state-of-the-map-us/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Martijn van Exel<br>
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