How Should We Celebrate OSM's 20th Birthday?

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Hi, all,

I went back through this list and came up with a summary and a recommendation. Both are below:

SUMMARY FROM THREAD:
Note that I didn’t put details here, nor tag the people who had the idea. This is just to show the three buckets or categories that emerged:

MAPPING EVENTS

  1. One Day Event, worldwide: It is a 24hr long mapathon that slides from time zone to time zone - post about it across socials, encourage local communities to set local goals, etc.
  • add a “send us your happy-birthday-OSM mapping photo” contest. The country that gets the greatest part of its population to participate wins. @ionvia
  • add a fundraiser to this that also goes time zone to time zone
  • add a project to close as many old notes, as possible
  • Get on Firefox
  1. Multi-day Editing Event, with one or more of the following features:

  • a regional contest to see who can personally field-survey the oldest mapped POI. Bonus points if it needs to be retagged or replaced with a brand-new POI.

  • a regional contest with a bingo board with squares … and a site that is based on a username looks up all the user’s changesets during the day in question (timezone adjusted) and marks of squares.

    Site: OSM Bingo PoC
    Code: GitHub - 02JanDal/osm-bingo-poc

DEVELOPER PROJECTS

  • A Big Year-Long Project (or more than one year-long project)

  • Launch a major new feature - (CW note: maybe that is what “The Year of the Vector Maps” is?)

  • A major improvement to iD editor

STORYTELLING & MEDIA

  • Create a media kit about OSM
  • Bring back the vintage logo w/ 2s and 2s instead of 1s and 0s https://drop.osm.lat/riWzQiueWc/OpenStreetMap-Logo-2006-20years.svg (thank you Andres (@AngocA)
  • Update of the 2010 OSM book http://www.openstreetmap.info/
  • A documentary film
  • A literary anthology reflecting on the past 20 years of the OSM community, including literary works and poems related to OSM in various languages (English and International version).
  • creative art contest, which could include several categories:
    ** Designing a commemorative OSM map design (vector, raster, … ).
    ** An art fusion contest using OSM data ( paintings, glass works, … ).
    ** A competition for designing an OSM 20y commemorative poster.
    ** Creations related to OSM generated with AI image generators (like DALL-E, Midjourney)

(Speaking as a person and not a CWG or fundraising volunteer) To me, almost all of these ideas could fall into one of two categories, like this:

  1. A multi-day mapping event that culminates on August 9th
  • It can be indoors and outdoors.
  • It can have a bingo card component; a POI competition; a fundraising project; and maybe even a “bring back OSM awards” project
  • It can be organized by a relatively small committee who can coordinate the different areas.
  • Communication about it would be supported by the CWG, fundraising committee, and board. (blog and socials, before during and after.)
  1. A single page that lists any projects that is dedicated to celebrating OSM’s 20th birthday. It could be here: OpenStreetMap 20th Anniversary Birthday party - OpenStreetMap Wiki.
  • It could have a simple template that makes the who, what, where, when and how consistent in each posting
  • Individuals and communities can post any idea they have, with details on how to join in. They can ask for participants, volunteers, or co-hosts as a way to grow their project
  • The community can visit the page to find people with similar ideas
  • The page would also be a one-stop location for someone who wanted to make a film or other creative arts project about the 20th.
  • The CWG and (ideally) the Weekly OSM can help promote the items on the list to boost visibility.
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