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

[Tim Alder]

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
> ) 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 .
>
> 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.
>