Talk:Microgrants/Microgrants 2020/Proposal/GeoChiapas
Thoughts
San Cristóbal de Las Casas and its periphery is undermapped by European standards. There is a clear need for a community of local mappers. So the applicants should be encouraged in their work to build awareness and support for OSM in the area. I'd say that is done by talking, by engaging with people, demonstrating OSM to Geography classes, holding mapathons, field mapping outings and other largely social events.
However, they do not want to talk, they want to make a video. I'm not convinced that making a video is effective in scaling the local mapping community. Training videos are useful, but I suspect the big active community of South American mappers will have already produced a lot of locally relevant Spanish language material by now. Can someone confirm that?
Videos for local minority language groups are culturally sensitive, which is great, but maybe not worth-while. My experience is in Africa, but I find that computer literate people of a minority language group can typically speak (as second or third language) one of the big languages of commerce - be it French, English, Swahili, Arabic, etc. In Mexico I expect that people in rural minority language groups who are not Spanish capable are also not likely to be computer literate. And OSM is not in the computer literacy business. So I'm not so keen on that aspect.
Training videos are actually hard to make. Yes, there are tens of thousands of amateurish 'how to' videos on Youtube, but I would want more than that. For a video making application I'd like to at least see a clear statement of the need for it, a clear statement of how you are going to get people to sit down and watch it, a show reel or some demo from the videographer, a basic framework for the series with clear and achievable training objectives, and a good analysis of the target audience. It does not start by getting a truck load of equipment and then wondering what exactly should we film.
Then, help me on this - afterwards, next year, who owns the equipment, where does it go?