[talk-ph] #osmfeu2015

[Erwin Olario]

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Dear everyone,

If you are monitoring #OpenStreetMap changesets from the #Philippines , you
may have noticed a common changeset comment from the past few days.

The ResultMaps from neis-one.org report the following outcomes for
#osmfeu2015 [1]
Information for #osmfeu2015
Number of OSM Contributors: 43
Number of Map Changes: 30,218
Total number of Changesets: 1,376

The FEU Institute of Technology [1] and the the Map the Philippines
initiative of Ms. Celina Agaton [2] recently concluded a training workshop
for FEU Tech affiliates (I.T. and engineering students and faculty) . Also
with +Celina Agaton are some of AidData Summer Fellows who are in the
Philippines to work along with Celina's number of mapping initiatives. Amy,
Daniella, Emily, Lu and Prabesh [4]. Some OSM-PH mappers participated as
facilitators: +Feye Andal (@ feyeandal) +Julius Bañgate (@ jmbangate),
+Dianne Bencito (@dichapabe), +Rally de Leon (@rally) and myself, at GOwin.

At the end of the event, we asked for voluntary participants for an
anonymous survey and over-all, the participants reported to have had very
positive learning experience from the workshop. More than half of the
respondents expressed their interesting in doing more field mapping
activities. So, if you guys are planning any mapping parties soon, you know
where to find them.

And if you find new edits in your area, and they happen to be from the
#osmfeu2015 guys, please be gentle with them. For now. :D

The small group discussions had been interesting for me, especially with
those who are now considering #OpenSource data from #OpenStreetMap for
their own academic or personal projects. I collected baseline contributor
data from this workshop and hope to evaluate the effectiveness of the
engagement a few months down the road. If any of you are interested in this
kind of thing, let me know how we can work together.

We were told that almost a hundred people signed up for the activity.
Personally, I am happy to know that there are that many people who find the
topic interesting. However, I'm also glad that we didn't get as much
participants because we would have had a rough time managing the class
because there weren't enough experienced mappers who can help facilitate
and direct small group discussions.

For the closing activities, we came up with a few interesting awards based
on contributor metrics: The Map-chine (for the participant who made the
most number of edits during the workshop), The Beast Mapper (for the
participant who contributed the most varied type of features, and the JOSM
Padawan (for the participant who made the most number of edits using JOSM).

I took a few snaps [5] but expect the workshop organizers to release their
official photos soon. :)

Many thanks to the organizers, the host, and to fellow participants who
made this possible.

[0] https://plus.google.com/+WinOlario/posts/2bw56neXHC3
[1]
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=osmfeu2015#5/13.753/122.124
[2] http://www.feutech.edu.ph/
[3] http://aiddata.org/aiddata-summer-fellows
[4] https://goo.gl/photos/b7sGziWhrmqJdDCVA

 Cheers,


*Erwin Olario*
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