[Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

[Dan S]

OK the press release is looking good, thanks Grant and hive mind!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit

Now: if anyone has ideas of journalists who might be interested,
please could you send me an email? Journalists who have written before
about OSM, or journalists in mainstream media who you think might like
it. Email me offlist to avoid deluging everyone. Send me their contact
details, or if you prefer to make the contact yourself then just let
me know and I'll send the tidied-up press release PDF to you for
forwarding.

Dan


2014-07-28 9:55 GMT+01:00 Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com>:
> You are! Or someone else. :) Are you in a position to help? Please add
> target press to the document if you have any suggestions.
>
> I wonder if UCL press office would be interested, since Steve Coast
> was at UCL when it started, and UCL has been supportive of OSM over
> the years. Is there a UCL+OSM person who might chat to their press
> office?
>
> Dan
>
>
> 2014-07-28 9:49 GMT+01:00 Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com>:
>> Who's going to draw up the target list of press platforms to send this to
>> and more importantly discover the correct contact?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On 27 July 2014 23:20, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Grant,
>>>
>>> Yes! Thanks for starting this. I've taken the liberty of being very
>>> bold. I've changed the tone to how press releases are normally written
>>> (essentially, written as if it was a newspaper article by a third
>>> party unconnected with osm), and I've even changed two of the
>>> paragraphs to appear as verbal quotes from you. I hope that's OK - it
>>> may seem a weird thing to do but it's good for press releases, helps
>>> give some life to the text and journalists would reuse the quote to
>>> give some life to the article.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help to update the stats please? We have "raw" stats like
>>> number of users, number of ways, but more interesting for journalists
>>> would be "kilometres of roads" etc - see some of the notes in that
>>> document:
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> 2014-07-27 13:55 GMT+01:00 Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release:
>>> > Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit:
>>> >
>>> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing
>>> >
>>> > Kind regards,
>>> >
>>> > Grant
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm looking forward to OSM's 10th birthday. It occurred to me that we
>>> >> should perhaps use it as a potential opportunity for some press
>>> >> coverage, ideally to get press coverage outside the usual tech/gis
>>> >> world. To do this we'd need some kind of event which makes a story.
>>> >>
>>> >> There are already plans for OSM birthday celebrations/meetups, and
>>> >> that's all good. I'm NOT talking about a social event but some event,
>>> >> perhaps even just brief, as long as it's got something that might
>>> >> appeal in a soft-news kind of sense. And maybe in London, since London
>>> >> is the birthplace of OSM.
>>> >>
>>> >> A couple of ideas:
>>> >>
>>> >> * We could organise a march following the route of the first ever GPS
>>> >> track (carrying Steve Coast aloft, sitting crosslegged on a splashmap)
>>> >>
>>> >> * We could visit the first ever tea-shop added to OSM, then the first
>>> >> ever park, then of course the first ever pub. We could give a plaque
>>> >> to each place to commemorate its place in history.
>>> >>
>>> >> To make it a press-worthy event, it needs to be something that we can
>>> >> write a press-release about in advance, and it needs to be something
>>> >> photogenic. So let's get more creative...
>>> >>
>>> >> * We could 3D-print a candle in the shape of all the OSM nodes in
>>> >> London! and put it on top of an earth-shaped cake!
>>> >>
>>> >> * We could print out a map of London at 1:1 scale...
>>> >>
>>> >> Anyone interested in working on something? Anyone got crazier ideas
>>> >> than me?
>>> >>
>>> >> Dan
>>> >>
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