[WMF-outreach-staff] Documenting the OSM activities during the Hackathon

[aude]

I am confirming with Development Seed but a few of their developers should
be there for tutorials on more advanced stuff.

It's simple enough to do a beginners tutorial on Wednesday afternoon.  I
think Yarl from Poland is coming and he helped last year.  We did one in
Haifa.

Cheers,
Katie

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Tim Alder <tim.alder at s2002.tu-chemnitz.de>wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm back in Internet now and join the mailing list.
>
> Aude is also involved in cooperation with OSM and she work on the
> sceduling the Wikimania events.
>
> For the tutorials I have no specfic plans and no preparations in the
> moment. So any help is welcome.
>
> There two things important for newbies:
> *Understanding of the system (motivation, object types, tagging schema,
> ...)
> *doing something (tracing from bingmaps, working with JOSM, working with
> GPS devices.
>
> This mapping party for newbies is now on Sunday after Wikimania.
> I see at hackaton more an event for advanced user and work on database
> stuff, renderer, tools etc. But we should see who is comming and react than.
>
> Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
>
> Am 05.07.2012 02:01, schrieb Asheesh Laroia:
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>> People seem to *really* be excited about the OpenStreetMap activities!
>> In our survey of prospective attendees, the two OSM-related things are
>> the two most popular things people say they'd attend.
>>
>> It looks like (from
>> http://wikimania2012.**wikimedia.org/w/index.php?**
>> title=OpenStreetMap&action=**history<http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=OpenStreetMap&action=history>
>> ) that Kolossus is the main person involved in documenting what OSM
>> stuff there will be. Hi! I've CC:d you, Kolossus -- welcome! I'd love if
>> you'd join the mailing list at
>> http://lists.openhatch.org/**mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-**staff<http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-staff>.
>>
>> I'd love to know more about the activities you (you meaning WMF+OSM
>> people generally) hope for, during the Hackathon, and get them on a
>> schedule. I'd also like to help you make them as awesome and
>> newcomer-friendly as possible.
>>
>> Some questions:
>>
>> * What specific tutorials do you want to do? (I can help come up with
>> ideas if needed.)
>>
>> * Do you have a written set of things you want to teach, within each
>> tutorial?
>>
>> * What hands-on activities can be provided for people to do? (Do you
>> need helpers to help people get past stumbling blocks?)
>>
>> * Is there a list of discrete tasks you can assign to newcomers, once
>> they understand the tool, that they can work on by themselves,
>> periodically asking questions as they have them? I find that assigning
>> tasks to people, and then having them work mostly independently, getting
>> help as required, is a good way for people to feel like they are
>> contributing something, and also to maximize the amount of work that
>> gets done by newcomers and the usefulness of the helpers.
>>
>> * What are the pre-requisite tools for people to install on their own
>> computers? I'd love to make high-quality guides for getting people
>> running with that so that we waste as little time as possible on the
>> setup, and people have as much fun as possible, and are as productive as
>> possible.
>>
>> Okay -- that's what I have for you, for now!
>>
>> I think this is going to be a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to
>> doing everything I can to help!
>>
>> -- Asheesh.
>>
>>
>
>


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