WeeklyOSM
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Contents
- 1 About
- 2 Available Languages
- 3 Workflow and Tools
- 4 What is the function of - Open - Edit - Review - Closed in OSMBC?
- 5 See the animated gifs about OSMBC in
- 6 Wordpress
- 7 OSM wiki
- 8 Amount of work
- 9 Related Projects
- 10 Communication
- 11 Want to join us?
- 12 Infrastructure
- 13 Branding
- 14 Current tasks
- 15 Contact
- 16 General
About
weeklyOSM is the sister project of the German OSM blog (also well known as Wochennotiz). The infrastructure of weeklyOSM was created within the Comenius project "My community and my history in OpenStreetMap" by an international team from five countries and is being consigned, little by little, into the hands of the community.
The aim is to share OSM news in a range of languages in addition to German and English. By nature weeklyOSM will be released several days after the German news.
We were interviewed by OpenCagedata in June 2016 about our Wochennotiz and weeklyOSM and took the chance to report at length.
Available Languages
- The WordPress administration is made by Madalina Ionescu and Anthony Bennett.
- weeklyOSM is available in the following languages (alphabetic order)
- weeklyOSM is currently produced in these cities
| Available languages | Current team | Former members | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Czech | Tomas, Vop, Marián, | - | |
| English | Anthony, Andy, Manfred, Wided, Michael, Jinal Foflia, Christoph, Peda, James Morrison, Alex Sims, SrrReal, Joshua Garner, Keith, | Andrew, Bogus (†), Oliver | |
| French | Lamine Ndiaye | Emmanuel Dewaele | |
| German | Marc, Marc Gemis, Christoph, Peda, Michael, Walter, Stephan, Manfred | Wochennotiz | |
| Japanese | Zoar, muramoto | Satoshi IIDA, | - |
| Português | Pedro Santos | - | |
| Spanish | Laura, Ruben, samely, ediyes, Eric Selene | Carlos, Susanna, Luis, | - |
| former languages | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | Vitor, João, Alexandre | joined in July 2015 | |
| Indonesian | Adityo | - | |
| Italiano | Stefano Sabatini, Fabrizio Tambussa | ||
| Romanian | Madalina | not enough feedback from the community | |
| Russian | Timofey, Yaroslav, Anton, Sergey, Dmitri | Lev, CriOnsKry | |
| Turkish | Can Unen | - | |
| NN | NN | NN | NN |
Workflow and Tools
OSMBC
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theFive wrote a dedicated content-management system: OSMBC (OSM Blog Collector) back in mid 2015, especially designed for the needs of Wochennotiz and weeklyOSM. This system has been in use since WN 272. OSMBC allows news articles to be "collected" by the weeklyOSM team. This process previously was done entirely by the German Wochennotiz team. Later English and Spanish translations of Wochennotiz were managed within the tool, but these days increasingly articles are collected in different languages and cross-translated in a flexible workflow enabled by the OSMBC software. Despite the name, it is not limited to blogs. The team also checks international mailing lists and other channels to include any news that is relevant. The system supports "markdown" formatted text, for each article, and groups them into categories. These are ultimately converted to HTML and put into the wordpress blog each week. |
What is the function of - Open - Edit - Review - Closed in OSMBC?
See the animated gifs about OSMBC in
Wordpress
Please note: The weeklyOSM is not only a translated German Wochennotiz, the Czech team shows you how they add Czech related content. Of course each team is free to add language specific issues, moreover they deliver interesting news to the whole OSM community via the German Wochennotiz.
OSM wiki
Documentation of our activities. The English version should be seen as the main page, to which all other languages should relate.
Amount of work
For each available language there are about three people needed to provide a level of satisfying quality. Translating is of course a big part, but also proofreading is very important.
Related Projects
- Life_Long_Learning_Mapping_Project the official Comenius name was: BoostOSM
- MychOSM - My community and my history in OpenStreetMap
Communication
Team members often communicate by email, as this "simply works anytime and anywhere". We aim to focus communication in the future and move most elements to Slack. Slack offers more real time group communication in a convenient way, it runs in a web browser, can be access via apps for mobile devices, supports xmpp and irc and is proving to be very efficient.
Want to join us?
We are always grateful for help from mappers (and also non-mappers!). As you can see, each weeklyOSM release includes a lot of recurring work and support would be appreciated. You can really help (even if you have limited time). This could involve translating some parts or helping to proofread articles. This way you will be able to read the news before anyone else does ;-) Email: theweeklyosm at gmail dot com or via blog
Infrastructure
The blogs are delivered by Wordpress running on web servers. As of mid 2016 the English language version is hosted at http://www.weeklyosm.eu and the German version at https://blog.openstreetmap.org. Some further details on technical set-up:
Branding
Details of design conventions, logos etc are recorded on the /Branding subpage
Current tasks
- 2015-05-31 building up this wiki page
