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Toby,<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Thanks for
your efforts. I'll try to contact some people here in LA, where,
apparently, there are big areas of unlicensed work. Since I can't edit
(thanks to the recent changes in Potlatch 2), I have some time on my
hands.<br><br>
Charlotte<br><br>
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 23:09:15 -0600<br>
From: Toby Murray <toby.murray@gmail.com><br>
To: talk-us <talk-us@openstreetmap.org><br>
Subject: [Talk-us] Contacting non-responders with less than a month to
go<br>
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Well, this has been brought up before but with less than a month
left<br>
to go before the license change I thought it was worth talking about<br>
again.<br><br>
Since December I have been steadily contacting mappers. I started
out<br>
covering Kansas and have had great success here. Since mid February,<br>
myself and others have been working on contacting the non-responders<br>
with the most edits in our respective countries, with some<br>
coordination and help from Simon Poole.<br><br>
All told, I have attempted contact with about 90 people here in the<br>
US. So far I have managed to get through to just over half and every<br>
one of them has accepted the new terms.<br><br>
However... As great as that is, it's still barely a drop in the<br>
bucket. My overall 50% contact rate has required a non-trivial
amount<br>
of effort involving google, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, youtube,
etc<br>
as well as a few (sometimes slightly awkward) telephone
conversations.<br>
"Hi, this is the Internet. I'm calling for your son." However I
have<br>
found that a good 25-30% of people respond after nothing but a<br>
personal message through the OSM message system. Obviously this
means<br>
that their registered email address is still valid and they see the<br>
notification email. This also means that they should have seen the<br>
messages from OSMF a couple of months ago but people are lazy,<br>
forgetful and have over-zealous spam filters.<br><br>
So everyone on this list, please take another look around your<br>
city/state using the available tools[1] and just start sending<br>
messages. You can easily spit out 10 messages in under an hour.<br><br>
I would suggest coming up with your own text that you feel
comfortable<br>
with. It doesn't have to be fancy. We're just trying to get eyeballs<br>
on the target. I usually put something location specific in the<br>
subject line to try and get their attention and let them know this<br>
isn't an automatic email. Something like "Your map edits in
<city>"<br>
seems to work.<br><br>
For the body I say that I noticed that they were active in OSM a<br>
couple of years ago and thank them for their contribution. Then I<br>
point out that since they haven't been active, they may not be aware<br>
of the upcoming license change which requires a response from all<br>
users and that we need their permission to carry their edits forward<br>
into the new license and ask them to log in to their account and<br>
review the new terms.<br><br>
That's all you need.<br><br>
And as a bonus, some of them might start mapping again! Fewer than I<br>
had hoped... but better than nothing.<br><br>
And finally, there are two non-responders here in the US that I<br>
haven't been able to find much on and was wondering if anyone else<br>
happens to know any details about them. They haven't been active
since<br>
before I created my account so I thought maybe some other long-time<br>
users might know something that I don't. If anyone has any personal<br>
information it would probably be best to send it directly to me and<br>
not the list. Or I guess try to contact them yourself. The user
names<br>
are:<br>
kyrbyboy with edits New Jersey<br>
Sunny with edits in Seattle, Denver and Beijing.<br><br>
[1]<br>
<a href="http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe" eudora="autourl">
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe</a><br>
(click on highlighted things to see user names of
decliners/non-responders)<br>
<a href="http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?layers=00B0" eudora="autourl">
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?layers=00B0</a><br>
(hold CTRL and draw a box to get a list of people in the area with<br>
dirty objects)<br>
<a href="http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/</a><br>
(to see where they have edited)<br><br>
Toby<br><br>
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