[Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US

[Serge Wroclawski]

I think its a mistake to assume that just because someone isn't listed on
the wiki, they haven't been contacted.

I've been contacting users for over a year and have been too busy fixing
data to put it on the wiki.

- Serge
On Feb 7, 2012 7:26 AM, "Josh Doe" <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:

> I've been looking through the list of undecided users for the US [0],
> and have noticed that many at the top of the list haven't been
> contacted, at least according to the wiki [1]. How about we make a
> concerted effort to work our way down the list, exhausting search
> engines and social networking sites to find other ways of contacting
> them? I think using the existing wiki list [1] would be too much, so
> perhaps we can create a separate page to document the progress.
>
> Does anyone have a better template email than the one on the wiki? Of
> course we should mention specifically where they've edited, perhaps
> using the heatmap to make this easier [2].
>
> For starters I tried to find one of the users, David Speakman, and
> after a bit of searching have found his LinkedIn page, two domains
> registered to him, from which I got his email, phone number, and
> address. Anyone familiar with Mountain View, CA or Fort Wayne, IN (his
> two big edit areas) willing to contact him? If so I'll send his info.
>
> -Josh
>
> [0]: http://odbl.poole.ch, specifically
> http://odbl.poole.ch/usa-20111208-20120201-poly.html
> [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL
> [2]: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org
>
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