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

[Glenn Plas]

How very unfortunate actually,  last week, 4 speakers have presented our
community at OpenData Namur, so that means that they were not aware of
our presence there!  And it was all about the community.

But it went beyond OSM.  This was a perfect opportunity to come visit.
In fact we talked to a journalist there who was very inquisitive.  So I
assume he wasn't there to sharpen his pencil but was working on an article.

Concerning the VZW/ABL thing, I don't see what it will solve if there is
no issue.  If the French speaking community has an issue big enough to
warrant this, by all means: drop it to this list to get it solved,
otherwise you'll be isolating yourself.   Even small issues are welkom.

I would like a open community as this one to be above the language
barrier.  Let's leave that to the dumb people, the politicians.  Let
's focus on the map.

Glenn



On 03-03-15 07:26, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> 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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