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

[Alex Barth]

I don't have the numbers off hand. It was a minority of the ~70 identified
though.

We identified the top 50 mappers by changesets and the top 50 mappers by
changes, discounted for bots and then offered a 50 % discount code to each
anybody who was in at least one of those two groups (about 70 individuals).

http://openstreetmap.us/2013/04/special-invitation-to-top-mappers/

Lessons we learned:

- This was real work. Between creating the ranking, the map and sending out
emails this was more than 1 full day.
- We should have done this before opening ticket sales. Some of the people
we reached out to had already signed up.
- This was a useful additional data point for scholarships. At least one of
the top mappers applied for a scholarship.
- I wish more top mappers had come out, doing this earlier might have
helped to encourage them to apply for a scholarship.
- I think we should do this again. It's a really great way to build
personal relationships with the most prolific contributors to OSM.
- Overall volume contributed is a very fuzzy indicator. But I also don't
want to overthink this. If someone's a really great mapper or otherwise
contributor to OSM, suggest them for a scholarship! Or in other words,
discounts for volume contributors won't take you all the way.



On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

>
> 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/
>
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