[Lexicon] invitation to check out a new initiative - OSGeo Geolexica

[Cameron Shorter]

Reese,
Re what we are aiming for? It is to find and get engagement from a person
in the project, who then becomes a champion for the glossary.

Re forums to reach them: There is the discuss email list, which used to be
very active, but got swapped and people left a while back. We've tried
that. There is a newsletter, but newsletters tend to be one-way
communication and I've found they don't attract much engagement. There is
an annual conference in ~ September. The one thing I've seen work (a bit)
is personal reach outs and follow ups which Codrina is trying.

Reese, your suggestion of getting something up and running first is also a
good approach and I'm open to that.

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 22:50, Reese Plews (ISO/TC211 - TMG) <
rplews at tc211tmg.org> wrote:

> hello Cameron:
>
> > So why don't we start by adding a tab to our spreadsheet of terms [1]
> which just contains:
> > Term, Description, Project1 (Y/N), Project2 (Y/N)
> > Reese, would you mind setting up the extra tab in your spreadsheet?
>
> not sure what this will give us or how it will help the efforts? i think
> we are working towards having a general OSGeo glossary ready within the
> next couple of weeks and that will show the project teams what this group's
> initial goal is going to be.
>
> since none of the project teams, if i understand correctly, are reaching
> out to us, is there an OSGeo venue where we can reach all of them (like a
> monthly project leader meeting?) and present our glossary and the
> vision/goals of the Lexicon group?
>
> if no such group exists, i think we should just move forward with our work
> on the OSGeo glossary and then aggressively promote those results to the
> project leaders/teams and the OSGeo community.
>
> when people see the results i think they will understand better how they
> can contribute. it will also give us more time to formulate other options
> that we can use to engage the project teams in future lexicon work.
>
> reese
>
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>
>
>
> On 2020-11-03 05:31, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Thanks Codrina,
> I can see you are connecting with all the right people.
> This early stage of a project, before you have built credibility with a
> real deliverable, is always difficult and lonely with lots of setbacks.
> One of the lessons you see in open source research is that successful
> projects typically do a very good job of making first contributions very
> easy. This correlates with psychological research into "Nudge Theory" -
> used positively to help populations to stop smoking and to start
> exercising, or not-so-positively to ... <add favourite gripe here>.
>
> So why don't we start by adding a tab to our spreadsheet of terms [1]
> which just contains:
> Term, Description, Project1 (Y/N), Project2 (Y/N)
>
> Ideally we should fill out one project first. Codrina, you might know one
> project well enough to do a first pass? It is okay if it is not perfect.
>
> Then we ask Arnika or Naini to send the bulk email to all projects (I can
> walk you through the process of using the spreadsheet mailmerge).
>
> Any objections or suggestions to this?
>
> Reese, would you mind setting up the extra tab in your spreadsheet?
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1keonRLT3chmqlRZsMMF9UaCI_vzNEHmJx6t9LB3jBjM/edit#gid=1083334541
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-- 
Cameron Shorter
Technical Writer, Google
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