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

[Josh Doe]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
> 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.

I sent an email to this user, and not only did he accept, but he's
made nearly 30 changes in the past 19 hours since he accepted! For
reference, here's the text I sent, based on one from Simon Poole:

Dear FIRST LAST,
You haven't been active in the OpenStreetMap project for quite a
while, but I see that you've made quite a lot of contributions in and
around SPECIFIC_AREAS [0]. In fact, you are the
RANKth most prolific contributor in the USA! [1]

Since you haven't been active since LAST_EDIT_DATE, you may have
missed that the last phase of the re-licensing process has started. In
other words, if you do not agree to the new contributor terms the
community will have to remove and remap the data that you have
contributed, mostly in and around SPECIFIC_AREAS.

Even if you don't intend to actively participate in the future, it
would still be important for all other users and mappers if you could
license your data under the new license.

Here is the official announcement:
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License

You can see your user account here (username is "USERNAME"):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/USERNAME

You can accept the license in the profile of your OSM account or here
after logging in:
http://openstreetmap.org/user/terms

If you've forgotten your password and no longer have access to the
email you originally used with the account (to reset the password),
you can email webmaster at openstreetmap.org to reset your password.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email or call me.

-YOUR_NAME

YOUR_EMAIL
YOUR_PHONE

[0]: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?USERNAME - This page shows a
"heatmap" of your contributions to OSM
[1]: http://odbl.poole.ch/usa-20111208-20120208-poly.html - This page
shows users which haven't agreed to the new terms yet