08-20, 10:00–10:20 (Europe/Rome), Auditorium B
Every day hundreds of people sign up for OpenStreetMap. We have several active OpenStreetMap communities, communities that are struggling to sustain themselves and at the same time, there are countries with no existing OpenStreetMap communities despite having contributors from those countries.
This idea of a community playbook is to act as a guide for persons interested in starting up an OSM community and sustaining OSM communities with lessons drawn from existing communities.
The community playbook is based on 4 themes; Identifying local community issues, attracting and engaging students, Connecting contributors motivation to mapping and Training
Arnalie Vicario - arnalie.vicario@hotosm.org
Talk keywords –Communities
Sharon is a GIS Analyst and a Licensed drone pilot who has a strong passion in Geospatial applications in Humanitarian actions with a keen focus on open data and in building inclusive and diverse spaces in the Open Mapping community.
She volunteers as a trainer for OSM Kenya and HOT Training working group, organizing, consolidating training materials and training the global OpenStreetMap community on OpenStreetMap and data validation.
Geoffrey Kateregga is the Community Manager at the Open Mapping Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa. He is an active member of the OpenStreetMap Africa community - a network of local OpenStreetMap communities from all over Africa organizing the State of the Map Africa conference and joining hands to share resources and collaborate to grow and produce a complete and well-detailed map of Africa on OpenStreetMap in order to advance the quality, completeness and sustainability of geospatial data in Africa.