COLLABORATING IN WIKIMAPS
GOAL
Get MapWarper on Commons
And then
Things that it enables
Starting at zero
Finding people
Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap, academia, public sector, GLAMs
FACTS & FIGURES
Wikimaps Nordic
5 partner chapters
Designers & Developers
Loose developer community
Half-time project manager
Running the local chapter too
Funding from Nordic Culture Fund and Wikimedia Foundation for 2014
HOW TO WORK?
Invent!
Appropriate!
GOVERNANCE?
Consensus?
(Endless)
Do-ocracy?
(I hate it at home)
Transparency
COMMUNICATION?
We've tried everything!
Conference presentations (many)
Mailing list
failed
(2 messages)
Google plus
failed
(6 members)
Page in Commons
(must-have)
Blog
(!important)
Newsletter
160 subscribers
Facebook
209 members
GitHub
Even Trello
Now the channels are too many!
We still need a platform for online collaborative work
ACTIVITIES
Hangouts
once a month
Workshops
Hackathons
GSoC / FOSS OPW
CREATE MORE WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
Expedition
CONCLUSIONS
Continue!
Learn!
Deliver!
Allow participation!
Revise!
Different expectations
Common ground