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

1. why? how? what? where? and where are we going?
Laura Barroso, Manfred A. Reiter aka derFred

2. 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?
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3. since 2010 - German Community - Marc Gehling
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4. weekly OSM until # 100 - July 2014
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/08/12/weekly-osm-summary-100/
…...
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5. Relaunch - October, 06 2014
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MychOSM
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6. weeklyOSM - a spin off from MychOSM
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7. - 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), M
schemes, events, imports, mapping, community, maps, OSM related projects7

8. - 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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9. - 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

10. - 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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11. - 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

12. - 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
languages
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13. COLLECTING TOPICS
OSMBCCHOOSE 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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14. Content Management System OSM BC by TheFive
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15. Workflow -1-
Collecting issues
during the whole
week in OSMBC
until the editorial
deadline - Monday
24:00 UTC
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16. Workflow -2-
Writing the
articles - mostly
German items
first,
but not always
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17. Workflow -3-
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18. Workflow -4-
Setting the edition ready to review (team members correct the translations).
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19. Workflow -5-
Export content to WordPress and publish
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20. 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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21. What -2-
Discussion about relevance of content, category etc ...
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22. weeklyOSM is currently being produced in
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23. - 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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24. - and … where we go? …
other - more languages ...
● French
● Portugues
● Indonesian
● Arabic ???
● Chinese ???
- Where are we going … weeklyOSM
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25. weeklyOSM Mobile App
- Here is where we are!
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http://tinyurl.com/weeklyosm

26. 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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27. 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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28. Features
● Provides weeklyOSM on every
language
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30. 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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31. Thanks for your attention!
Do you have questions or suggestions?
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Contact: www.weeklyosm.eu or theweeklyosm @ gmail.com