[Talk-ca] Edmonton OSM gathering

[Adam Dunn]

If you are willing to sign up for a free account at itoworld.com, you
can use their tool to analyze which users are making edits to osm in
certain parts of the world. Sign up for the OSM Mapper service, then
create an area for Edmonton, then run your analysis. You can view all
the users who have made edits to Edmonton, and sort them by number of
nodes/ways. The following link may work (or maybe it will only work
for my account):
http://www.itoworld.com/product/osm/map?colour=table&area=4286:4&show=users&sort=total-
The top 20 users for Edmonton area:
xixi
charrois
geobase_stevens
Sundance
xelloss
Oberaffe
VE6SRV
yoltia
AKC
ptrchpmn
Angus C
ianb
Carbon-14
pringle
woodpeck_fixbot
user_5365
xybot
aude
vreimer
mattropolis

Now you can use the OSM internal mailing system to try some outreach
to these people and see if they want to attend. Here's the template
email I used for our Vancouver July 2010 meetup:

>Open Street Map is having its first-ever Vancouver meeting in the afternoon of Tuesday, July 27th. I've noticed some of your edits around the area, and thought you might be interested in meeting the other editors you've probably noticed. This will be an informal meeting where you can learn more about mapping techniques and the imports that are happening around Vancouver, around BC, and around the country. If you can't make it in person, you can still participate by logging on to the #osm-ca IRC room and chat over the Internet with the attendees.
>
> You can find more info about the meetup at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vancouver/July2010
>
> It may have been a couple months since you last did some editing to the area, but it's always cool to see what's happening in the OSM community!
>
> Adam

Maybe that will help out. I'm a little north of Edmonton, being in
Yellowknife right now myself. Hope the meeting is successful!

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Fabian Rodriguez
<MagicFab at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On 07/05/2012 08:03 PM, James Ewen wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>>
>>> May I suggest that you "just do it", and go ahead and set it up and
>>> that you reach out through other channels for attendees?
>>>
>>> If you set up the event on an event-service, like upcoming.com or
>>> meetup.com, your event will be seen by _people who are looking for
>>> events to attend_.  That's awesome, right?  You could help new users
>>> learn about OSM and make their first edits.
>>>
>>> The drawback to advertising your event _only_ on this list, is that
>>> not all Canadian mappers are on this list.
>> How many OSM mappers in Edmonton are on upcoming.com, or meetup.com?
>
> There was a similar thread about meeting / setting up groups in Quebec
> and Montreal.
>
> Please don't forget the OSM resources that already gather such information:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Users_in_Edmonton
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Alberta:Edmonton
> (I updated the first link to include links to AB and Edmonton pages)
>
> Each user's profile page has a link at the left: "Email this user" - use
> it to at least let them know where / when you'll meet. *Invite them to
> this list*, encourage them to keep updated diaries and if possible,
> update the above wiki pages accordingly.
>
> You won't know how many more are out there until you setup events and
> advertise them there. This takes time and patience. Facebook and
> EventBrite are also often used to organize events, although I don't like
> to focus on only one service as they mostly require an account to
> confirm or even see the events. I use identi.ca and joindiaspora.com
> with good results because most local mappers/friends+colleagues involved
> in free software related projects I know are there, and they spread the
> word in their respective networks. In Quebec most events around free
> software end up at http://www.agendadulibre.qc.ca, it would be
> interesting to find out if there is a similar site for Edmonton. Maybe
> www.efcl.org has a public calendar of events?
>
>
>
>
>> Upcoming.com is a website that is for sale, and on meetup.com, I can't
>> even figure out where OSM might fit in their list. [...] Seems kind of silly when you say it that way, huh?
>
> Not silly at all - just focus on resources you know and get the word out
> - go print! Local cafes, community centres, libraires, etc. are great
> venues to advertise your gathering. You will probably start small, but
> you need to be consistent and very patient :)
>
>
>>
>>> I encourage mappers in other places to host local events as well.
>>> It's fun and a great way to learn from other mappers.
>> Yup, it would be good to share ideas and learn from each other, but I
>> would think that there's a better chance of communicating with people
>> interested in OSM in Canada here than on some other random site.
>>
>
> It depends. Who uses OSM Data? Go to those groups. Many are in one of
> the categories (accessibility, cycling, humanitarian aid...) listed here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_projects
>
> You'll find *very* receptive people among groups that need/use such data
> and are interested in improving it.
>
> Good luck and please consider coming back here with a small report of
> your meeting :)
>
> --
> Fabián Rodríguez
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MagicFab
>
>
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>
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