<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 November 2010 06:55, Elizabeth Dodd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edodd@billiau.net" target="_blank">edodd@billiau.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I have just read the newest OSMF Communication Working Group Minutes.<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=11qaYQt-7rjQsRmVxJ1DSKLgWl4-XZrIyJcIXeeIEvd4" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=11qaYQt-7rjQsRmVxJ1DSKLgWl4-XZrIyJcIXeeIEvd4</a><br>
which is shortened as<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/exKvJM" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/exKvJM</a><br>
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I didn't actually get any information whatsoever from these minutes.<br>
Have they been especially sanitised for public distribution or is this<br>
really what those people didn't actually discuss in a meeting situation?<br></blockquote></div><br>Hello,<br><br><irony>of course they have been sanitized: we don't want our marching orders to be known (given to us by Mapquest, Bing, Cloudmade, Geofabrik and every other companies working with OSM evidently). We don't want to leave compromising evidences.</irony><br>
<br>More seriously, the minutes are light because not all meetings are packed with exciting and new things coming. And the more exciting part is that we have nothing to hide and you could actually join the team if you are interested. We started with a small number of people who have been doing communication for OSM (Harry Wood is a volunteer based in London who has been organizing many of the local meetings, Richard Weait since he is very active on OpenGeodata site, Oliver Kuhn for writing his blog and being chair, and me for being co chair, and spending an awful lot of time getting involved in the French community). We then expended to Hurricane that has been doing some communication in the past, and finally we just invited someone from the US local chapter who is interested in communication. <br>
<br>The communication working group scope so far has voluntarily been relatively light initially since previous attempts lead nowhere. We have been working in making sure that the foundation blog is alive and providing information about what is happening inside the foundation. Comments about lack of transparence are here, and those are the initial attempts at publicizing what is happening. You can see the latest post here: <a href="http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2010/11/28/working-group-summary-3/" target="_blank">http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2010/11/28/working-group-summary-3/</a><br>
<br>The following work that we are doing is working on translating the blog in different language to make sure that we reach different communities in the world. The second project is revamping the foundation website to make sure that it is functional and readable, with proper text on what is the foundation and so on based on the current articles that were written by 80n.<br>
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The main goal is to get something sustainable and then start doing a bit of outreach in the future but we are not there yet. The potential scope of the CWG will expand eventually when we have done the initial goal which is to give an insight of what is going on and how the different working group can be contacted and/or joined. <br>
<br>Also I would like to remind people we are all volunteers in the end and it would be nice to have more volunteers to be involved.<br><br>Emily Laffray<br>
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