[OSM-talk] growing the volunteer base

[Andy Robinson]

Etienne wrote:
>Sent: 20 September 2006 9:22 AM
>To: SteveC
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] growing the volunteer base
>
>On 9/20/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
>	I had a chat with tom steinberg of http://www.mysociety.org/ last
>night.
>
>	He was very much of the opinion that wiki should be www and www
>should
>	be edit, and also sung the praises of their volunteer button.
>
>
>+1 Agree strongly.  There are some proposals for a new improved front page.
>We can, and we should, switch wiki. and www. immediately.
>

I wouldn’t go quite that far. I'd prefer to see the single portal page as
the new mockup is now. The portal page (and any supporting pages) needs to
be hosted on a server than can take a big hit. Will Bytemark carry it? This
then points to the various internal OSM servers and the wiki. Then we should
always on the whole always have something to say on the portal even if
access to elsewhere is a problem when we get hit hard again. As is bound to
happen.


Cheers,

Andy


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>
>
>
>	If you go to http://www.mysociety.org/ and hit 'volunteer' and play
>	around you'll see what I mean. It's a nice pretty thing atop their
>bug
>	tracking system. It asigns someone to a task and alerts the
>developers.
>	It suggests to the new volunteer that they join a mailing list and
>get
>	more involved. He said it had been a big boost to their volunteer
>	numbers.
>
>	Could something similar work for us? Would someone like to hack
>	something like it on top of trac?
>
>	have fun,
>
>	SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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