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

[James Mast]

Just was able to get JoePranevich http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JoePranevich (who was #606 on the prolific contributor USA list) to agree today.  Just sent him a PM via OSM this morning, and less than 6 hours later, he's agreed and it saves several things in Pittsburgh as well as around the USA (like in FL). :)  Now I can at least remove ahead of time a few "odbl=clean" tags in Pittsburgh since he's agreed. :)
 > From: josh at joshdoe.com
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:28:03 -0500
> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Contacting high-impact undecided users in the US
> 
> 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
> 
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