[OSM-talk] Education and Community Manager @ OSM World

[Matthias Meißer]

Hi, not sure that I get the point, but if you want to talk to people, 
that have experience in pushing OSM to educational institutions, check 
this out:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Education
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research

But as Frederik says, we arent that wellformed (or static) organized, 
but this might be helpfull:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Local_Contacts
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_groups

Hope that helped just a bit, bye
Matthias
(user:!i!)

Am 11.12.2011 07:52, schrieb Frans Thamura:
> Hi kate,
>
> I can see value of your work to 'revoluse' education problem here, i
> believe most emerging country.
>
> Lets me show, after my work create result.
>
> On Dec 11, 2011 1:48 PM, "Kate Chapman" <kate at maploser.com
> <mailto:kate at maploser.com>> wrote:
>
>     Since I came up in the discussion I figured I should explain myself:)
>
>     On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org
>     <mailto:frederik at remote.org>> wrote:
>      > Frans,
>      >
>      >
>      > On 12/10/2011 10:29 PM, Frans Thamura wrote:
>      >>
>      >
>      >
>      > OSGeo is an organisation that works differently from OSM; it is
>     more driven
>      > from the head, from people who decide that they want to have a
>     XYZ chapter
>      > or install an XYZ manager, completely independent of whether or
>     not there is
>      > a community. This is usually not how OSM works.
>      >
>      >
>      >> I chated this with Kate, about her LearnOSM, which Kate put
>     under HOT
>      >> umbrella. Education = HOT?
>      >
>      >
>      > Even though HOT is yet another organisation with different
>     concepts and
>      > rules, what you describe here is just an example of do-ocracy. In
>     OSM, if
>      > someone makes something for learning OSM then that's ok, everyone
>     can do it
>      > and you don't have to found an educational chapter first and appoint
>      > yourself to a post on that.
>
>     LearnOSM really is just a website we made.  While we were training
>     people it become apartment we needed simple step-by-step instructions.
>       Jeff Haack just stayed up late one night and started working on it.
>     It has been awesome how other countries have gone and started
>     translating it.
>
>      >
>      >
>      >> I also discusses with Emir (Kate's team here), about OSM-id
>     community
>      >> program, and "in plan" is the answer.
>      >
>      >
>      > OSM doesn't "plan" its community. The community just grows by
>     itself. OSMF
>      > does occasionally make plans for various kinds of outreach but
>     you should
>      > not expect miracles from anyone. OSM is a do-it-yourself project. The
>      > community in your country comes from you, and people like you,
>     starting
>      > something - not from people in Europe or America making big plans.
>
>     Actually "in plan" was the website we were working on.  We don't have
>     a "big" plan for the community.  Our goal is to get people mapping. If
>     someone figures out a better way to doing that cool. We hoped the
>     website would help people get together.  Yes Emir is part of my team
>     since he is doing an internship with HOT, but he is free-willed and
>     can do whatever he wants.  Meaning he's had meetings with other groups
>     interested in OSM in his spare-time.
>
>     Best,
>
>     -Kate
>
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