[OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

[Paul Norman]

On 9/8/2014 11:18 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote:
> it has been some days that, when I visit openstreetmap.org, I am shown
> a nice box reminding me that SoTM is coming soon (see screenshot[1]),
> is there a way to use this system to promote local events (say local
> State of the Map conferences?).
There are two issues with this. First, a technical one - no one has 
written the code to do so. This is, for obvious reasons, an absolute 
hard requirement.

The second one is a policy one, on what to show, and to whom. SOTM is 
easy, as it's an OSMF event. It'd probably be annoying and dilute the 
value of the spot if there was a banner there the majority of the time. 
Including past non-OSMF events on the front page has been contentious, 
but we now have a Local Chapters template agreement, which might make 
that easier as we could tie that in, now having a definition for a local 
chapter.