[Talk-GB] OSMUK local chapter

[Rob Nickerson]

So here is my 100 day plan (the first general meeting is a given so not
included here):

1. Create a portal for discussion and decision making.

I hate to tell you but talk-gb sucks. In fact mailing lists in general
suck. They work well for techy people but don't appeal to Aunty Jane. If we
want to expand our community beyond our current group we need to appeal to
a less techy audience. Several months ago I looked at all sorts of
platforms many of which are great for discussions and sharing info (e.g.
slack, fleep, gitter, facebook) but very few are good for group decision
making. If we want this project to be a group one (and we should) rather
than a director project then a decision making tool will help.

I recommend Loomio and it is therefore my first 100 day task. We can host
on their site (like the OSMF do) or self host.

Any volunteers for self hosting? See:
https://github.com/loomio/loomio-deploy

I will set a group up in a few days unless somebody offers to deploy to
their server.


2. Run a competition for ideas (with money to pay for their implementation)

Once a discussion and decision making tool has been set up lets share
ideas. Give a certain amount of time and then pick a winner! The following
are essentially my suggestions to such a competition.


3. Website
We need to start thinking about our website. Whatever we develop has to
cover off our objectives. A big front page map (like openstreetmap.org)
will not in my opinion do that. I prefer a website such as
http://switch2osm.org , http://openstreetmap.de/ , or
http://mappa-mercia.org

Do others agree?


4. Promote the quarterly projects
We've seen that these can be successful but we need a crack team of people
to help promote these. Let's set up such a team.


5. Regional champions
We need to spread the work. If we could have a Chairperson committed to OSM
UK as their day job then great. If not, then let's split the work and build
a community of regional champions.


6. Get a newsletter going
We've set one of these up for State of the Map (via mailchimp) and now have
over 500 people subscribed. Communication requires ongoing work but I'd put
it in the list of top few tasks.


7. Buy some equipment and loan it out.
OSM previously loaned out GPS devices. We could do the same but expand it
to GoPro cameras (for mapillary style mapping), laser distance measuring
devices (useful for building heights), etc..


Regards,
*Rob*
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