[Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

[Dan S]

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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