[talk-au] Funding for OpenStreetMap initiatives

[Edoardo Neerhut]

OpenStreetMap merch could be a good thing to fund yeah. Would business
cards be helpful for people? Personally I have never had much trouble,
although contributing to Mapillary has prompted the odd question here or
there.

Maybe we could set up a store with useful swag/equipment that would be
subsidised by OSGeo Oceania. The minimal fees would cover shipping and stop
random people ordering things.

On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, 23:36 Graeme Fitzpatrick, <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yep, & I was one of them, sorry :-(
>
> In the News last week:
> https://www-openstreetmap-org.translate.goog/user/LySioS/diary/398913?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN&_x_tr_hl=en-G
>
> & the version in English is here:
> https://wiki-openstreetmap-org.translate.goog/wiki/Business_card?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=EN&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
>
> It would be nice if we had a central e-mail address for "OSM Australia"
> that any subsequent enquiries could go to?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 12:20, Edoardo Neerhut <eneerhut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When this was raised last year we had some wonderful suggestions on how
>> OSM funds could be used, but we lacked people willing to implement them.
>>
>> I wanted to bump this thread and see if anyone is willing to put their
>> hand up to arrange OSM badges, business cards, drones, cameras, events, or
>> any other ideas that would help people wanting to contribute to OSM in
>> Australia. OSGeo Oceania has funding available that is just sitting there,
>> so we'd love to put it to use.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 19:08, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The high-viz (ORANGE!) vest?  Been there, done that, those are visually
>>> loud and itchy, uncomfortable vinyl.  I would prefer something like a
>>> lanyard-badge/card with real OSM logos (could be Australian chapter, for me
>>> it'd be OSM-US) and I'd even put my photo on that (and I'm really sensitive
>>> to getting my photo put on a badge, like I won't do it for my Costco
>>> membership; I say it is against my religion because it is against my
>>> personal beliefs to do that).  But I wouldn't be sharing this "OSM Badge"
>>> with anybody besides a person I showed it to ("carry a clipboard and act
>>> important") and struck up a chat with about OSM and smiled as I answered
>>> all questions to the best of my ability.  "Business cards" are also a great
>>> idea, put the website on 'em and we might have just earned a new volunteer
>>> after they check us out.
>>>
>>> Yeah, fitting into those paradigms of "ambassador, have I answered all
>>> of your questions..." and badges and business cards, maybe even a sort of
>>> vCard between smartphones, yeah, any or all of those seem like they gain
>>> traction and respect for our project.  Community building happens on all
>>> sorts of levels, these are good ones.
>>>
>>> There are all sorts of sites that let you upload some graphics and a
>>> photo-per-badge and they'll pump 'em out for maybe AUD5 each in quantity 20
>>> or so.  Decent templates and design tools are built right into the website
>>> and are what I'd call (having used them) "not bad."  Good luck, sounds like
>>> a sweet spot.
>>>
>>> SteveA
>>> California, USA
>>>
>>> > On Jul 13, 2021, at 6:03 PM, Jonathon Rossi <jono at jonorossi.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > @Graeme, I don't have the time or really the skills to design one, but
>>> am happy to provide feedback. Another organisation I volunteer with here in
>>> QLD has a plastic credit card sized ID exactly as I described above,
>>> portrait orientation with a slot at the top. I recall it was shipped
>>> directly to me from a Gold Coast company that prints them, no idea the cost.
>>>
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