[Osmf-talk] OSM Foundation sign-up at SotM 2013

[Martijn van Exel]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Mark Iliffe <mark at markiliffe.co.uk> wrote:

> As for a membership based on edits, this discounts those that have worked
> on the wiki, server and other elements of our wider community. These
> elements are much harder to quantify in terms of effort and contribution,
> however, are vital to drive the editing of the map.


I appreciate that concern. We did something similar here this year, and I
will explain why. For SOTM US, we identified the top 50 mappers based on a
few months of changesets[1]. We realized this method would not necessarily
identify other U.S. community members who have been exceedingly valuable in
other ways. To alleviate that concern, we had the scholarships[2] which
really nicely filled that void.

The reason why we really want to give a discount to the most prolific
mappers was threefold. Firstly, we did (and do) not know many of them in
person, and we wanted them to be a more visible part of our community by
taking away some of the barriers to attend a major OSM social. Secondly,
the blog post gave a level of public recognition that these very prolific
mappers had never gotten, at least not in the U.S. as far as I know.
Lastly, we wanted the SOTM US crowd to be as complete as possible a
representation of the U.S. community, and we felt this incentive would
contribute to that objective.

Alex (cc), do you have figures on how many actually took advantage of this
incentive?

[1] http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/special-invitation-to-top-mappers/
[2] http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/scholarships-state-of-the-map-us/

-- 
Martijn van Exel
http://oegeo.wordpress.com/
http://openstreetmap.us/
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