[OSM-newbies] Things to do - was Changes in OSM website: congrats

davespod osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm
Wed Jun 8 15:10:29 BST 2011


Xan-3 wrote:

> But is there a non-developers todo list. Or a suggestion list. 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Things_To_Do

This list seems to have a non-development item on it - community
communications (mostly improving documentation).

> For  example, I want to suggest to interview to the top OSM contribution 
> users (like interview in http://www.ubuntu-news.org/). In which page I 
> have to put it?

You will find OSM to be a fairly unstructured entity. It is often called a
"do-ocracy". Both development and non-development tasks tend to get done
because people decide they are important enough to put some of their
precious spare time into, when they could have been out mapping instead. So
it is the things important to the doers that tend to get done, and the best
way to get your own priority task actioned is to just get on and do it. That
is not to say you shouldn't add it to the wiki, but don't necessarily expect
that someone else will choose to do it unless it is sufficiently important
to them.

Having said that, the OSM Foundation's Strategic Working Group has been
trying to do something a little more coordinated. It was they who brought
about the recent changes to the web site. If you are interested in
discussing OSM's priorities, perhaps have a look through their minutes and
consider joining a meeting - they meet by IRC, and you don't have to be an
OSMF member to join in.

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes#Strategic_Working_Group

Cheers

David (davespod)

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