by
OpenStreetMap-Belgium
The Belgian perspective to building an OpenStreetMap community
Mission, strategy & implementation
Our mission
Support and grow the OpenStreetMap community in Belgium
Mission, strategy & implementation
Strategy
non-mappers -> mappers
mappers -> community
community -> organisation
organisation -> networked organisation
Strategy
Community-first and radically 'open':
- extremely welcoming
- open leadership
- open collaboration
- not radically 'open-source'
Be extremely welcoming!
Strategy
- Don't exclude anyone!
- Value different skills
- Always be nice, yes a code of conduct!
- Don't punish mistakes but encourage improvement.
Crazy about mapping
be a club you
want to part of
be welcoming
show appreciation
grow diversity
Welcoming tool
- Send a message to every mapper with a first edit in Belgium
- Invite them to our channels
- Be nice even if they make mistakes and offer guidance and reassurance.
Welcoming tool
The language issue
Open leadership!
Strategy
- Don't do everything yourself!
- Give others credit and have them take the lead.
- Value different skill sets equally.
- Listen to community feedback all the time and act accordingly.
- Assume you won't be around forever.
Open leadership!
Just do it already
And start doing meetups
Mapathons
great
to expand your team
not great
to grow the total number
of mappers
Open collaboration!
Strategy
- Work with other 'open' minded organizations!
- Build a network around OSM users and contributing organizations.
- Recognize contributions from partners.
- Don't be afraid of companies, but not naive either.
Open collaboration!
- Help companies to help OSM win!
- Help partner organizations to map specific to their need.
- Build tools to collaborate easier with governments.
open Summer of code
Building tools for quality checking and error correction for the Brussels government.
Come to our road-completion talk on Monday @ 09:30!
Conferences
Share the workload of organizing a conference!
Radically open but not radically open-source!
Strategy
Radically open but
not radically open-source!
Strategy
Radically open but not radically open-source!
Strategy
- OSM it not an open-source software project.
- Keep focus on mapping not software.
- Promote OSS everywhere but use what works best.
- Don't exclude anyone! Even those not using OSS.
Learned from experience...
Do as little as possible!
Talk like an organisation
community@osm.be
newsletter
www.osm.be is not community-oriënted, we have a wiki for that!
Having a paid employee helps a lot!
Thank you Dries!
...thank you Open Knowledge Belgium!
Talk in places people might not have heard you before...
Ever answered an OSM question with a sigh?
"Why can't we just import all the buildings?
But 'machine learning', why still map?
Why is it so difficult to map an area?
Don't we need a code of conduct?"
Can't someone else do it?
What the global community can do for us?
Give us a voice, we became a local chapter...
Be a club you want to join!
Let's make this
a priority
following diariescommunity indexreviewmychange- massive local messaging through OSM.org
- basic statistics
- extended membership waiver for OSMF
- microfunding (domain, meetup,...)
- local group website templates
- dedicated channel
- stickers and promo material
- godfather program
Be positive!
We are winning!