[OSM-talk] [Design] Banners on the Front Page

[Arlindo Pereira]

I totally agree with this. Even though I can only talk for myself, as a
brazilian user I'd like to have a more proeminent way to talk with
brazilian users - and when I say users, not ourselves, heavy-users,
seasoned mappers, who participate on mailing lists and/or wiki because we
already talk to each other on these channels, but visitants and specially
newbie mappers - in another way other to expect people to discover the wiki
and/or the mailing list and/or sending a OSM message to every new mapper in
my state and expecting them to notice the message icon on the website.
It'd be of great use to schedule mapping parties and other kinds of events,
such as inviting to mini-conferences and talks inside free software /
traditional GIS events.

Cheers,
Arlindo Pereira

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:

> [wider issue, so cc:ing talk@]
>
> On 22/03/2013 15:32, Shaun McDonald wrote:
>
>> On 22 Mar 2013, at 14:06, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> ...we have a strip down the left, and this screen real-estate is
>>> valuable space. Here more than anywhere users are eyeballing the
>>> graphics, text, and user interface elements we choose to put there.
>>> We have in the past chosen to put graphical banner ads promoting
>>> State Of The Map conferences and some other events, in the run up
>>> to these events.
>>>
>> >
>
>> How about a rotating banner that rotates round showing all of the
>> upcoming SOTMs? This would then minimise the vertical space needed.
>>
>
> Actually, this is a great opportunity to devolve local marketing to local
> chapters.
>
> Let's call it the "message" space. Allow local chapters to choose what
> marketing message goes in that space for their country (subject to certain
> criteria, i.e. must promote OSM, mustn't give advantage to one commercial
> provider over another, mustn't look dog-ugly).
>
> Use GeoIP etc. to find what country the user is from. Serve the message
> for that country.
>
>
>
> So, to take this example, OSM-US decides its priority is promoting
> SOTM-US. It puts the banner there. US visitors therefore see it. Ideal
> solution for US visitors. Also ideal for Bulgarians who don't really want
> to know about a conference in SF; they have their own priorities.
>
> The beauty is that it doesn't have to be restricted to conferences. Let's
> say the French community has a project to map shops. Fine: they put a
> little banner there which clicks through to the project page. Or let's say
> the US community wants to focus on addressing. Same again.
>
> Of course, OSMF could still override for international messages (like the
> main SOTM conference), though it would be polite to give a couple of weeks'
> notice to the local chapters.
>
> Our local presence and local knowledge is our strength. Let's make the
> most of it.
>
> Richard
>
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