This panel discussion is about understanding motivations and objectives behind everyone's journey with OpenStreetMap. The panel will be held in a very interactive fashion, in which participants will be welcomed and prompted to participate to the discussion. The presenter will act as moderator of the panel, bringing the hand mike across the room.

The goal of the panel discussion is to collect ideas and suggestions to draft a survey to be disseminated among the whole OSM community and better understand what motivates mappers to do what they do best (i.e. contributing to OSM!). The survey would circulate for the following months, in order to present results supposedly during the next SotM. Ideally, the survey will enable understanding of motivation differences, if any, among different classes of mappers (e.g. studying correlation on variables as OSM user lifetime and activity, age, continent of provenance, OSMF membership etc).

During the panel, some topics and initial ideas will be shared to start with, and build on top of the ongoing conversation. As an example...
- Why do you map on OSM?
- What do you mean by contributing to OSM?
- What do you think is the main motivation of other OSM contributors?
- What stops or demotivates you to contribute (more) to OSM?
- What do you think brings a positive impact to the OSM community?

Ideally, the building of the survey will continue after the panel by gathering comments and suggestions through OSM Community Forum, to be eventually published and disseminated shortly after.