why? how? what? where? and where are we going?

Laura Barroso, Manfred A. Reiter aka derFred

Agenda - 2016/09/23, Brussels- wording: weeklyOSM means: Wochennotiz, semanarioOSM, 週刊OSM,

týdeník, haftalıkOSM, ЕженедельникОСМ

● some history 2010 - 2016● Why? - some stats ● How_1? - some theory● How_2? - OSMBC live (collect, write, translate, move; history; statistics;

flags; automatic translation; Admin View - Category Translation) … quickly ;-)

● What?● Where?● Where are we going? 2

since 2010 - German Community - Marc Gehling

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weekly OSM until # 100 - July 2014https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/08/12/weekly-osm-summary-100/

…...

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Relaunch - October, 06 2014https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MychOSM

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weeklyOSM - a spin off from MychOSM

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- Why?● OSM is a huge database community● information

○ international mailing lists (> 160)○ regional german mailing lists (> 50)○ Forum (> 70)○ Twitter ○ Telegram groups○ Blogs○ Newspapers○ Journals○ Online News○ ...

● spread relevant news○ Mapping, Community, Events, Humantairian OSM (HOT, MM, Projet COF), Maps, tagging

schemes, events, imports, mapping, community, maps, OSM related projects and software …

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- How? Editor-Content - Sequence vs. Random

● ~ 25 collectors● observe

○ ML > 30○ Forum > 7○ wiki○ Twitter○ blogs ○ Telegram

● Rizzoma,dillinger.io● DE > EN > ES● OSMBC

○ CMS○ TheFive

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- How? OSMBC* - a CMS by TheFive

● editorial tool for weeklyOSM● it allows

○ collecting internet references○ editing them in multiple languages

(markdown)○ comments and discussions○ exporting WordPress ready html

9* FOSS, available on github: https://github.com/TheFive/osmbc

- How? editing

● editing / translation can be done across languages in parallel○ e.g. Spanish article can be translated to German

● no dependency between the different languages● all blogs are published in a short timeframe● language individual content is possible● Spanish can appear before German version

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- How? editorial process

INTERNET (FORUM, MAILING LISTS, TWITTER, FACEBOOK, BLOGS, …)

COLLECTION

MARKDOWN DE

MARKDOWN EN

MARKDOWN ES COMMENTS

REVIEW DE REVIEW EN REVIEW ES

WP EXPORT WP EXPORT WP EXPORT 11

- How? collecting topics

● support for duplicate search (mainly based on links)● expand Twitter urls (including shortener)● collection exists of

○ title○ collection (mainly a link - comments allowed)○ category ○ create an article for one language only or for all

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COLLECTING TOPICSOSMBCCHOOSE COLLECT

PASTE YOUR LINK

CHECK DOUBLETTES

ENTER YOUR CATEGORY, TITLE AND

COLLECTION TEXT

STORE FOR CURRENT OR ALL LANGUAGES

SEE CURRENT AND TRANSLATION

LANGUAGE HERE

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Content Management System OSM BC by TheFive

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Workflow -1-

Collecting issues during the whole week in OSMBC until the editorial deadline - Monday 24:00 UTC

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Workflow -2-

Writing the articles - mostly German items first,

but not always

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Workflow -3-

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Workflow -4-

Setting the edition ready to review (team members correct the translations).

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Workflow -5-

Export content to WordPress and publish

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What -1-

PREAMBLE

The Wochennotiz/weeklyOSM

● reports *news* of the reference week● aimed at experienced and newly boarded mappers● is created by mappers and OSM enthusiasts● is independent of organizations and companies

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What -2-

Discussion about relevance of content, category etc ...

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weeklyOSM is currently being produced in

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- Where are we going … OSMBC

● more process integration ○ („marketing“, export to WP)

● integrate OSM community for collecting○ restricted access to OSMBC

● generate not only WP, use e.g. Hugo or other static website engines

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- and … where we go? …

other - more languages ...

● French● Portugues● Indonesian● Arabic ???● Chinese ???

- Where are we going … weeklyOSM

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weeklyOSM Mobile App

- Here is where we are!

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http://tinyurl.com/weeklyosm

Why weeklyOSM App? -1-

● There’s no mobile application dedicated to spread the news on OSM.

● It is the easiest way to reach the content from weeklyOSM and related OSM blogs on an Android phone.

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Why weeklyOSM App? -2-

● For countries like Cuba who has internet “issues” it is a benefit because the app stores the downloaded news from the weekly so the user has the option to read those once he is offline.

● The application aggregates a way to share weeklyOSM and other OSM blogs.

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Features

● Provides weeklyOSM on every language

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Features

● Possibility to share the content

● Direct access to some well known blogs on OSM as: ○ OSM Blog ○ OpenCageData○ Saberes Nomadas … and

… tell us your favorite blog

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Thanks for your attention!

Do you have questions or suggestions?

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Contact: www.weeklyosm.eu or theweeklyosm @ gmail.com