[Osmf-talk] Proposal: Welcome Wagon Working Group

[Ragnvald@mindland.com]

Made an initiative towards new mappers in the Arusha (Tanzania) region. Found the most active users and messaged them using the osm-messaging system. This is what I learnt:

* The messaging system is awkward for  sending messages to people not on your friends list
* Fantastic and reflected emails from the users and they seemed to like the initiative to dialogue
* Could set up an OSM forum under the Tanzania GIS User Group (www.tzgisug.org) but I'm not sure how to mandate this and if there are guidelines
* Clearly community interaction is the way to go, but how should it be initiated and to what ext should the foundation lead the way through policies and/or advice?

Cheers,

Ragnvald

On 23. sep. 2012, at 19:10, Christian Quest <cquest at openstreetmap.fr> wrote:

> I think this a a very good thing !
> 
> I've taken time during 2 month to contact each now contributor who
> made edits in France.
> This has been interesting. Around 10% answered to my messages, some of
> them joined the talk-fr@ mailing list or our phpBB forum.
> 
> --
> Christian - cquest at openstreetmap.fr
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