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

[Cristian Consonni]

2014-09-08 20:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>:
> 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.

Both are absolutely good points, for the first one can I suggest to
use the same system that is used on Wikimedia websites?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice

Cristian