Aha thanks Simon, and agreed, too much stuff becomes too much work. The new message goes to the OSM Inbox?
Yes, and there's currently no alternative. Most editors will indicate that you have unread messages, so it doesn't entirely rely on e-mail working for notification. There are a couple of open issues for the rails-port on potential improvements to the messaging system, but that's a bit out of scope here.
One thing to note is that we historically haven't promoted
becoming a SOSM member in a big way. On the one hand we've always
wanted to avoid the impression that you need to participate in
organized activities to contribute to OSM, on the other hand, as I
mentioned, we've always understood ourselves as a service
organisation and that doesn't really require mass membership. More
members would clearly be good, in particular more active members,
but that leads to the same dilemma as being active in the OSMF and
OSMF working groups. Either you need to spend more time on OSM or
it takes away from mapping which is likely why you started being a
regular OSM contributor in the first place.
The larger challenge is that the novelty of OpenStreetMap has
worn off, naturally totally expected and compounded by OSM being a
success and in a sense "winning". This makes contacts with
governments, other organisations and the industry far easier, but
on the other hand has reduced media coverage in Switzerland to a
trickle over recent years, making it difficult to get the message
out to a larger audience.
Simon
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 19:51 Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
Since nearly a decade new mappers in Switzerland get a welcome message pointing them to the mailing list, relevant social media accounts (since a couple of months including a FP page), the wiki and the SOSM website._______________________________________________
Other activities include regular presence at conferences and similar events, joint projects with WMF Switzerland and other organisations with similar aims (chopen, opendata.ch etc.) and promoting OSM in a educational context (https://openschoolmaps.ch/).
We currently don't promote the existing forum as we don't want to split limited resources over too many places, once the existing forum has been migrated to the new service, it may make sense to regroup around the Discourse service, but there are pro and cons to that and in the end the Swiss community will need to come to a consensus on that.
I'm not going to go in to details on all the services SOSM offers, but I will point out that we see our main role in promoting OSM and providing services to the community, not in banging the drum for SOSM itself.
Simon-- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit Kaiten Mail gesendet.
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