The document discusses weeklyOSM, a content management system called OSMBC that is used to publish a weekly newsletter for the OpenStreetMap community. OSMBC helps manage the process of collecting topics from various OSM media sources, writing articles, translating them into multiple languages, and releasing the translated issues. It allows different editors from various cultural backgrounds to collaborate on the newsletter. The document encourages trying out the OSMBC system in guest mode, which only requires an OSM account, and provides the link to the OSMBC site.

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All roads lead to
Rome

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This weekend
all OSM roads
lead to Milano

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You talk to your
audience here in
Milano …
… but how to inform
the OSM
community?

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You talk to your
audience here in
Milano …
… but how to inform
the OSM
community?
The solution

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weeklyOSM in numbers
- for the statistics fans of us
Websites weeklyosm.eu & blog.osm.de
Current languages EN, ES, JA, FR, DE, CZ, KO
Reader per month > 12.000
Active editors per week ~ 40
Messages per week ~ 30-50
Content Management System OSMBC - FOSS - github

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OSMBC - a CMS to publish weeklyOSM
“Just Blogging” is easy today for everybody... - even people who shouldn’t be doing it can do it :)
What is still tough:
Collecting & Evaluating & Writing & Summarising & Translating & Synchronising:
● multiple topics (from the very heterogene OSM sphere)
● from multiple media (mailing lists, forum, blogs, professional journals, twitter etc ...)
● with several contributors / editors
● with different cultural background
● translating all articles into multiple languages
● and releasing them as fast as possible
○ as soon as the translations are ready
○ and spreading the word (mailing lists, forums, blogs, twitter)
And keeping track of all the above… except you use OSMBC :)

8. weeklyOSM
via OSM BC*
OSM Blog Collector
Manfred Reiter, aka derFred, OpenSaar
* OSM BC developed by TheFive

9. OSM BC - in
guest mode …
you only need an
OSM account!
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https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/

10. OSM BC - in
guest mode …
you only need an
OSM account!
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https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/

11. OSM BC - in
guest mode …
you only need an
OSM account!
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https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/

12. OSM BC - in
guest mode …
you only need an
OSM account!
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https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/

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OSMBC expects a link

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21. Email
Email is
necessary to
receive
messages
from other
editors.
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22. Email
Email is
necessary to
receive
messages
from other
editors.
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23. Email
Email is
necessary to
receive
messages
from other
editors.
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24. Email
Email is
necessary to
receive
messages
from other
editors.
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25. Email
Email is
necessary to
receive
messages
from other
editors.
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26. … but how to inform the
OSM community?

27. … but how to inform the
OSM community?

28. https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/
… but how to inform the
OSM community?

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Thanks -
Questions?