[OSM-talk-be] follow up of meeting with press (La Libre)

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

Dear,

As I told Julien, Gael (former president of OSM-fr) and Jo, I have been 
meeting yesterday with journalists from LaLibre.be / the IPM media 
group (also DH). La Libre Belgique (http://lalibre.be) is probably one 
of the best French speaking newspaper.

I had met them at a crypto/datajournalisme party earlier and they came 
back to me because they wanted to know more about OSM, how it worked 
(especially the community), which tools we have, what we do, what we 
provide, how to work with us ...

We spent more than 2 hours yesterday, checking many tools on osm.org 
(location and the new routing ... that just lack the simple exchange of 
the 2 positions and the possibility to add others I think) demoing and 
editing onlide with id (eg introducing a tag 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3379643263 . By the way, is it 
correct / complete ?) 

In echange, the journalists have promised papers to inform the public 
about the mapping party on April 25.

Most probably the journalists will also come to the party.

We have concluded with the following actions :

* they will send me a spreadsheet with georeferenced data and 
informations (like for all communes in Belgium some data : population, 
ages, wealth, ...) that the would like us to examine and put in a map 
based on OSM
* we (they and us) will get in touch and organize a set of seminars 
with the Association des journalistes to teach journalists (experienced 
and students / trainees) how to use the many OSM tools and programs, 
and if possible, how to code in python/java when you are a 
datajournalist)

For such seminars, which will span beginners to advanced users, I will 
heavily rely on you, my dear fellows from OSM-be.

I told the journalists that I consider that if the data and the tools 
are free (as in speech and beer), most of the times, our times are NOT. 
And that they will have to find a way to compensate us and most 
probably pay the speakers for OSM (or our association for us to gather 
some funds).

Which Flemisch journalists / editors could we also contact ? Who is 
ready to help me in such an endeavor ?

We should start organizing in the wiki some info : who is capable of 
teaching what.

best regards,

Nicolas
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