[Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

[Luis Villa]

Just a data point, if OSM is anything like Wikimedia: anywhere outside of
the US and Western Europe, mapper conversations are likely already
happening *primarily* (and possibly even *exclusively*) on Facebook. And in
the US and Western Europe, mapper conversations among people who joined in
the past 1-3 years are also likely already happening at least in large part
on Facebook. The question is not whether you should start conversations
there; the question is whether or not you're engaging with and benefiting
from the conversations that are already happening.

Luis

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:30 AM Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
> Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> writes:
>
> > Relax, I am not saying “contributors must have a Facebook account”,
> > rather I am saying “People with a Facebook account should be able to
> > join a local interest mapping group”.
> >
> > This is about increasing the number of casual mappers interested in
> > OSM. For example, Maptime is an organization that runs local meetups
> > for this purpose.  They currently seem to prefer Meeetup/Twitter, but
> > I think a stronger presence on Facebook would do more to further their
> > aims.
>
> Sure, but what tends to happen is that the local osm group the organizes
> on $OBJECTIONABLE_PLATFORM and those that don't use it are marginalized.
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