So I wanna talk about this tool that I've been working on. It's a welcome tool. It was originally created by the Belgian community and I wanna thank them very much for their work. They also use Pascal Nilsa's results map

for grabbing new mappers, which is instrumental in making this tool work. So building community, that's why we do the welcome. I've been doing a welcome. I've been doing this in Washington state now for a number of years. And I don't get a great return on comments back to me,

but I do think ultimately it's helped us build a fairly large community in Washington state. I know the meetup group, which I hope Brian gets his microcosmos working has grown from I think like 60 people to over 1200 today.

So my idea of building community is we start with a very friendly welcome message. One that's informative and ideally one that's brief because we all know nobody likes to read really long things. I certainly don't. They should have like a link to the Wiki and I love to give them a link to join Slack

as well as the other online communities that we have like Facebook and the mailing list. I also like to review their edits and I try to leave a friendly change that comment particularly those, the ones that ask for reviews.

I offer to help on suggesting how to improve their edits. And again, like I said, I like to point to the Wiki to say this is how that tag really should be added to this feature. I usually do this in the form of tips.

So I got a hashtag so that you can search on change that comments and you can see the kind of tips I did. Last year, the biggest tip was screen buildings. For some reason, ID does not encourage people to square their buildings. I encourage people to fix their mistakes. I only fix those that are really more complex.

And I give feedback to everybody that requests it. Now I'm gonna try to do a demo of this tool. Now, as Jeff had said, this morning for some reason my IP address changed and I had to struggle

to get this struggle to get that thing working but we're gonna try this, I don't know. Can everybody see the new login screen now? I believe that's okay. So it makes you log in just like any other application that would use it.

And it brings you to a list of the most recent mappers in this case in the last 24 hours. And you can go on there and I haven't actually looked at any of these. So we'll just pick one. And first and joined two years ago made their first edit two years later.

Their language is English. And because this was written for the Belgian community language is a big thing because they have four languages in Belgium they have to deal with. Fortunately, we really only have like two. Have they been welcomed? No, they haven't been welcomed yet.

So one of the things we can do is we can abuse the user on OSM job and they did some correcting info. And so you can bring this up and take a look at it and select and see what they changed and they removed a feature drinking water, okay.

And the name, which we don't like descriptive names. So this gives you a chance then you can go in and do a welcome. And I got a generic one that you can use built right in there.

And you could also copy and paste your own and you can send this. And then we'll go back here and I have sent this welcome message.

So now this person has been welcomed. You can filter this by these but I really encourage people to consider something like this. I'm trying to, I want to get this thing working a little bit better. I'd like to get the OSM community to host this on their website so that everybody can do this.

Let me go back. So again, like I said, this was based on the Belgian welcome communities tool. It's a work in progress. I need help. It's written in PHP, which I haven't dabbled in a million years

and I'm not much of a programmer to begin with. So if you've got skills, let me know. I'm looking for all the help in the world. So that's it. Thank you very much.