<div dir="ltr"><div>Hallo Nicolas,</div><div><br></div><div>that's great news. More publicity is welcome. </div><div><br></div><div>Since I only experimented a bit with umap, QGIS and do some occasional OverPass query I won't be able to help you much with the seminars I fear. I hope there are more experienced users of those tools will chime in.</div><div><div>However, I fear that most members of the community (this mailing list) are mappers, not data consumers.</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div><br></div><div>m</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. do you know about <a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/09/le-monde-adds-mapboxs-open-source-maps-to-its-new-website-to-highlight-where-news-is-happening/">http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/09/le-monde-adds-mapboxs-open-source-maps-to-its-new-website-to-highlight-where-news-is-happening/</a> ?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Nicolas Pettiaux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas@pettiaux.be" target="_blank">nicolas@pettiaux.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear,<div><br></div><div>As I told Julien, Gael (former president of OSM-fr) and Jo, I have been meeting yesterday with journalists from LaLibre.be / the IPM media group (also DH). La Libre Belgique (<a href="http://lalibre.be" target="_blank">http://lalibre.be</a>) is probably one of the best French speaking newspaper.</div><div><br></div><div>I had met them at a crypto/datajournalisme party earlier and they came back to me because they wanted to know more about OSM, how it worked (especially the community), which tools we have, what we do, what we provide, how to work with us ...</div><div><br></div><div>We spent more than 2 hours yesterday, checking many tools on <a href="http://osm.org" target="_blank">osm.org</a> (location and the new routing ... that just lack the simple exchange of the 2 positions and the possibility to add others I think) demoing and editing onlide with id (eg introducing a tag <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3379643263" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3379643263</a> . By the way, is it correct / complete ?) </div><div><br></div><div>In echange, the journalists have promised papers to inform the public about the mapping party on April 25.</div><div><br></div><div>Most probably the journalists will also come to the party.</div><div><br></div><div>We have concluded with the following actions :</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>* we (they and us) will get in touch and organize a set of seminars with the Association des journalistes to teach journalists (experienced and students / trainees) how to use the many OSM tools and programs, and if possible, how to code in python/java when you are a datajournalist)</div><div><br></div><div>For such seminars, which will span beginners to advanced users, I will heavily rely on you, my dear fellows from OSM-be.</div><div><br></div><div>I told the journalists that I consider that if the data and the tools are free (as in speech and beer), most of the times, our times are NOT. And that they will have to find a way to compensate us and most probably pay the speakers for OSM (or our association for us to gather some funds).</div><div><br></div><div>Which Flemisch journalists / editors could we also contact ? Who is ready to help me in such an endeavor ?</div><div><br></div><div>We should start organizing in the wiki some info : who is capable of teaching what.</div><div><br></div><div>best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Nicolas</div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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