<div dir="ltr">One of the biggest issues facing OSM in my opinion is the lack of awareness of our project among members of the general public, at least in the US where I am from. Whenever I get a chance I ask people about what navigation apps they use, and if they have heard of OpenStreetMap. Very few people that I have spoken to have heard of OSM, even though many of them are using an app that uses OSM "under the hood." In contrast, almost everyone with whom I have spoken has heard of Wikipedia. The general public is the pool from which we draw new mappers, as well as the pool from which we gain potential financial donations (even if the contribution comes from a foundation or a corporation, it is individuals within those organizations making the decision). <div>1) Conduct a survey of the general public to determine their awareness of OSM, impressions of it, and to what extent they have a basic understanding of how OSM works.</div><div>2) What can be done to increase awareness of OSM among the general public, especially those that use an OSM based app?</div><div>3) Reach out to journalists and influencers that write/blog about maps, geography, technology, etc. and encourage them to cover OSM. Take steps to ensure they have complete, accurate, and relevant information about OSM.</div><div>4) Develop and run an "add my business" website that would allow a business owner to add their business to OSM by simply filling out a form and clicking once on a map. These submissions should be reviewed by an OSM volunteer before actually being added to the map.</div><div>5) Work with universities, particularly those that have geography/GIS programs to encourage them to have one or more courses about OSM. </div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 12:13 AM Craig Allan <<a href="mailto:allan@iafrica.com">allan@iafrica.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">OSMF Members:</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">There is a general circulation to OSM users asking for comments on the OSMF strategic Plan. Below you'll see the letter which has been sent out.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">We especially ask OSMF Members to please review the Strategic Plan.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Part B, about Community Development is the first part we ask you to review.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">We'll send out invitations to review Part A, Part C and Part D at two week intervals.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Please sent public responses to the OSM talk list or to the Discussion Board General Page. </span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Private/Anonymous responses to <a href="mailto:strategy@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">strategy@osmfoundation.org</a>.
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<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">thanks</span></p>
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<p><b><i>2023 Strategic Planning Cycle – Community Participation</i></b><br>
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The Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation is revising its
Strategic Plan, and invites all OSMF members and the OSM
community to participate in this process.<br>
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The plan is quite large, so we want to discuss it with you in
four phases over the next two months. In each phase we focus on
a different aspect of strategic development for the OSMF.<br>
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The first phase will be “Cluster B: Community Development for
OSM”. We are looking for your comments for only this section for
the next two weeks. <br>
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If you click through the link to “<a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Cluster_B" title="Cluster B" target="_blank">Cluster B: Community Development for OSM</a>”
you will find all the strategems in that cluster listed there.<br>
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We would especially like your feedback on just four questions:<br>
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<li>What is missing from the plan? Or put differently, what
should we add to the plan?<br>
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<li>Are there any inconsistencies in the plan? Does the plan
seem to be well aligned with the <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement" title="Mission Statement" target="_blank">OSMF Mission</a> and the direction
of the OSM movement? Where are any problems?<br>
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<li>Which three strategems are most urgent? Which three must we
do really quickly?<br>
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<li>Which three strategems are very important? Which strategems
are critical for OpenStreetMap to succeed and grow?<br>
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<p>You may of course comment on anything else as well.<br>
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If there is debate on this topic on any of the hundreds of
social media sites that host OSM-related discussions, you could
help us greatly if a member of that site or channel please
prepare a summary of the comments and post it (in English) to
the team. We cannot follow all of the discussions on all social
media ourselves but we do care to hear your voices.<br>
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We will mainly follow feedback in these two places:<br>
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<li>The OSM community general forum on Discourse at <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/general/38/none" target="_blank">https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/general/38/none</a><br>
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<li>The OSM community mailing list which you can reach by
sending email to <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
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</ul>
<p>You can send private comments to be read only by the strategy
team at <a href="mailto:strategy@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">strategy@osmfoundation.org</a> or you can write individually
to Board members.<br>
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Due to our small team, we’d like comments to be in English.
Machine translation from your language is fine. We have used <a rel="nofollow" href="https://translate.google.com" target="_blank">https://translate.google.com</a>
and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.deepl.com/en/translator" target="_blank">https://www.deepl.com/en/translator</a>
successfully but there are many others that work well.<br>
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Many Thanks<br>
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Craig Allan, Sarah Hoffmann, Allan Mustard
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