Event tags

[tordanik]

Most events aren't one-offs, but belong with others – e.g. because they are a recurring event or organized by the same group. Examples include:

• the events of a local group, such as monthly meetings or mapping parties
• the annual SotM conferences
• meetings of working groups or the OSMF board (i.e. groups that don't quite fit the Community Index)
• events that are part of a particular theme (e.g. events hosted to celebrate OSM's 17th birthday)

A straightforward and flexible way of representing these would be to add a field for comma-separated tags (could also be called "categories", "labels" or something else, to avoid the association with OSM's key-value tags) to the event creation step. These tags would be free-form text, allowing the community to come up with creative uses in good OSM tradition. Categories would be displayed on the event page, and it would be possible to filter lists of events to only show those with a particular tag.

There are many possible use cases here, such as linking to osmcal for the list of a working group's scheduled meetings on osmfoundation.org instead of having to maintain them in two places, or allowing a local group to have a automatically updated list of meetings on their OSM wiki page with the plugin.

While more sophisticated solutions (such as those discussed in #36 and #60) would be great for the particular goal of modelling communities, tags/categories could be a quick and pragmatic first step that would already cover that requirement pretty well. And because of their other uses and general flexibility, I expect that tags would remain useful even once there is something better for communities.

[danieldegroot2]

Possible tags

A list of possible tags, just whatever came to mind.

OSMF

Mainly intended for OSMF.

• Board/etc. Voting
• (XX) Working Group

Meta

Ones already covered by event descriptions could be considered redundant, for this a browser can be used.

Access (Public/Private/XX); event access, not venue access.

[Map Event]: Experience (None/Beginner/Advanced/XX)

[Map Event]: Editor (iD/etc.)

Domain

• Wiki
• Translation
• Developer (Software/Hardware/etc., Hackathon) -- (OSM-focused / OSM-related (game))
• Open Data (Imagery/Wikidata/etc., Datathon) -- (OSM / Non-OSM)
• GIS -- (OSM / Non-OSM)
• Other
• Research (school/academic/scientific) -- (OSM-focused / OSM-related (Open Data/GIS/Other)

Topic (Mapping/Map Style/Routing/Licensing/etc.)

Subtopic (Validation/Statistics/Community/etc.)

Theme (Land use/Buildings/3D assets/Transport/Traffic management/Micromapping/etc.)

Interest (GIS/Humanitarian/Business/etc.)

Social

Could be made a "yes/partial" to indicate whether for the whole or only part of the event.

• Activity (during (and focused around) a non-mapping activity: Food/Drink/Leisure/Brainstorming/etc.)
• Discussion
• Presentation
• Workshop (as a leisure) -- Training (to learn)
• Competition
• Fundraising
• Education (tied to school); ie. a 1 day course tied to geography course.

Special

Celebration (Birthday/XX Day(read: [Topic] [Duration])/Milestone)

Out of scope (or not)

• Launch (Software/Project)
• Deadline (Applications/Registration: SotM/etc.)
• Tag Proposal (only Voting/RFC)
• Surveys (mainly those for school/academic/scientific research)
• Question of the Week/etc. (as held on OSM World Discord)
• Standalone (OpenHistoricalMap/OpenGeoFiction/etc.)
• [Event Series]; already part of #72.
• [Community]; already part of #36.
• [Existing UI/API labels]; already covered by the UI or API (eventhough "Online/Virtual" and "[Online/Virtual]: contact channel" could be candidates for switching to be tags instead of a Location.
• [Generic: News/Thread/etc.]
• [Off-topic: Jobs/etc.]

This issue is related to #7.