Paul - good points. I said "wiki" and meant the "Social" elements of the OSM site - e.g. <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pnorman">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pnorman</a>.<div><br></div>
<div>Agreed - standard wikis aren't the best for community building.</div><div>-Jeff</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’d say the wiki is likely the least used of the various channels for local OSM communities. Because as part of the DWG I’ve had to contact local communities in various ways I’ve seen (in some kind of rough order resembling popularity)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mailing lists<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">OSM.org forums<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Facebook<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Google groups<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Other forums<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I don’t see the wiki used very often and I don’t think the wiki format is well-suited for a community to use to communicate.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jeff Meyer [mailto:<a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org" target="_blank">jeff@gwhat.org</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 10, 2012 3:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> Alex Barth<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a> Talk<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-us] Know of a local user group? Update the page!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Noticing how many of these user groups host sites outside of OSM, is there any update on making the OSM wiki more social / functional for local area community building? (followup to SOTM birds of a feather discussion)<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Seems suboptimal to have so much out of band activity without greater cross-community OSM social networking.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Not saying it's broke, just could be better. : )<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">- Jeff<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Alex Barth <<a href="mailto:alex@mapbox.com" target="_blank">alex@mapbox.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>Hey everyone -<br><br>If you're running / aware of a user group in your town, I'd love to ask you for a quick minute to update this page - thank you!<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States</a><br>
<br>Alex Barth<br><a href="http://twitter.com/lxbarth" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/lxbarth</a><br>tel <a href="tel:%28%2B1%29%20202%20250%203633" target="_blank">(+1) 202 250 3633</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">-- <br><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Jeff Meyer<br>Global World History Atlas<br>
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<br></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1">Jeff Meyer<br>Global World History Atlas<br><a href="http://www.gwhat.org" target="_blank">www.gwhat.org</a><br>
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