[Talk-us] Know of a local user group? Update the page!

[Paul Norman]

I'd say the wiki is likely the least used of the various channels for local
OSM communities. Because as part of the DWG I've had to contact local
communities in various ways I've seen (in some kind of rough order
resembling popularity)

 

-          Mailing lists

-          OSM.org forums

-          Facebook

-          Google groups

-          Other forums

 

I don't see the wiki used very often and I don't think the wiki format is
well-suited for a community to use to communicate.

 

From: Jeff Meyer [mailto:jeff at gwhat.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:38 PM
To: Alex Barth
Cc: talk-us at openstreetmap.org Talk
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Know of a local user group? Update the page!

 

Noticing how many of these user groups host sites outside of OSM, is there
any update on making the OSM wiki more social / functional for local area
community building? (followup to SOTM birds of a feather discussion)

 

Seems suboptimal to have so much out of band activity without greater
cross-community OSM social networking.

 

Not saying it's broke, just could be better. : )

 

- Jeff

 

 

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:


Hey everyone -

If you're running / aware of a user group in your town, I'd love to ask you
for a quick minute to update this page - thank you!

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States

Alex Barth
http://twitter.com/lxbarth
tel (+1) 202 250 3633 <tel:%28%2B1%29%20202%20250%203633> 





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