<div dir="ltr">Kai-- those are some really great ideas around publicity!<div><br></div><div>Personally, I think we'd need a dedicated PR person on staff to fully accomplish this. That's not really feasible in the near term, though-- so maybe we should think about ways that we can break that down into volunteer-sized tasks? This seems like a great Birthday Sprint project... (hint hint...)</div>
<div><br></div><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"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Non OSM conferences and trade shows also seem like a great opportunity for<br>
</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OSM outreach and publicity, as those events can often also reach hundreds or<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">thousands of people, many of whom might act as multiplicators as they are<br>
</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">often the more active members in their community.</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Can the folks who were at the Esri UC talk about the OSM presence, the mapping party, and how that all went? </font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Kai Krueger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kakrueger@gmail.com" target="_blank">kakrueger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Clifford Snow wrote<br>
<div>> I'll start by just listing a few of my thoughts:<br>
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> We need publicity!<br>
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</div>Yes! Publicity is in my opinion one of the biggest things we need and should<br>
try and work on as a group. Looking at the data, it is clear that when ever<br>
there was significant publicity on OSM, the number of editors (particularly<br>
new ones) has shot up, at least for a while.<br>
<br>
While local mapping events are great and important, they probably only<br>
manage to get a handful of new mappers if at all. Having an article in a<br>
news paper or significant blog on the other hand is likely to get many more<br>
new mappers.<br>
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Non OSM conferences and trade shows also seem like a great opportunity for<br>
OSM outreach and publicity, as those events can often also reach hundreds or<br>
thousands of people, many of whom might act as multiplicators as they are<br>
often the more active members in their community.<br>
<br>
So perhaps instead of setting targets of that we want to achieve X number of<br>
active mappers in a certain time frame, we could set a target of aiming to<br>
have Y articles about OSM in the press and Z talks / booths at conferences<br>
by then.<br>
<br>
Those targets are much more tangible than the number of active mappers as<br>
how any given action will effect that number is rather more speculative.<br>
<br>
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As a group in osm-us, we can perhaps work on identifying likely magazines<br>
and conferences that would have an interest in high quality open maps.<br>
Which groups with interest might be particularly underrepresented and<br>
therefor good candidates for outreach? Furthermore, we can exchange ideas of<br>
what worked best at those events in order to improve the "marketing<br>
message". E.g. how does one convince an editor that writing about OSM is<br>
worthwhile thing to do for their audience. How can you become a "guest<br>
author" to write an article for them and get it accepted? Which aspects of<br>
OSM are particularly amenably for writing good articles? If you go to have a<br>
booth at a show, what are things easiest to demonstrate? What are the demos<br>
that spark most interest?<br>
<br>
Then we can find local volunteers who actually go to the events or talk to<br>
editors to do the real outreach.<br>
<br>
We still have a long way to go from the 0.6 mappers per 1M population in the<br>
US to the 9 mappers per 1M population in Austria, but collectively we<br>
hopeful have enough skill and enthusiasm to really work on improving our PR<br>
and push those numbers up.<br>
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Kai<br>
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