Talk:SMWConTalk2019-09
Hello everybody. I´m Maria. Yesterday, when I arrived here, I did not know that I will talk today.
This year our company BITPlan is one of the sponsor of this conference
and we are happy to do this.
It is just like inviting our friends for dinner.
I am going to share my viev on the three topics.
This is my experience.
⌘⌘ Transporting Bikes by Train
Our location here is the UIC the International Federation of railways.
We are happy to stay here, becouse we often travel by train.
I wish, that this organization helps,that in other countries it is posible to carry bikes into trains.
I have bad knees and I can't properly walk any more.
So we bought us pedelecs. This helps me to do lang biketrips.
In the last two years we have been riding 5.000 km with our bikes.
Our bike tours we have documented on the website ebike.bitplan.com
That website is a semantic mediawiki site.
Wolfgang has prepared the templates for it
and I love to fill the Websites with documents and fotos.
This year we created a special page on transporting bikes.
As you can see in the different pictures every country has different standards.
In Germany and Czechoslovakia the transport is most simple and comfortable.
In countries like France things get difficult - in Sweden it's almost impossible to transport bikes.
If the UIC help improve the situation internationally, than we can visit more places with our bikes.
That will be great.
⌘⌘ #11Dollar4Climate
Lets continue with the next topic.
We have initiated the #11Dollar4Climate idea.
You find it in twitter and github.
You need 11 dollars.
Good person get 10 dollar.
Bad person get 1 dollar.
In a letter you send your donation.
And a note, that you explain why the person doesn't get the other 10 dollar.
The 10 dollar go to an organization.
Which is doing something good for climate.
to make sure that our children and grandchildren survive the climate change with an intact planet.
Wolfgang and I started with sending 1 dollar to the president of Brazil
and 10 dollar to Sting's rainforest foundation.
I am a fan of Sting and I liked this start.
Also it felt good to think what Jair Bolsonaro would think
when being politely asked to invest one dollar in fighting the recent rainforrest fires.
Obviously 11 dollar is not much - but that's good
because you might be able to afford coming up with your own idea.
The whole thing is not so much
about money but about sending a two sided message out.
Some people out there need to be stopped to do what they are doing right now
and others need support!
⌘⌘ Marketing in a non-profit organisation
The last topic.
When Richard yesterday proposed that the marketing for
Semantic Mediawiki should be professionalized
Wolfgang and I have offered to share our experience
with the non profit organization.
we founded 10 years ago: the iSAQB - the International Software Architecture Qualification Board.
That organization is very successfull and over 15.000
people have gotten an iSAQB certificate in the meantime.
By the way if you'd like to get
one of those certificate just give me a call and I'll explain
why it is so much fun to attend a course with BITPlan ...
From my personal experience as a secretary of that organization
the core marketing success factor is: People.
See how the ISAQB is listing it's members.
It is also planned to have a list of all those 15.000 attendees
and make sure the Alumni happily promote the association.
For SMW Wolfgang and I took the same approach.
For quite a few years we made sure that every attendee
get's his personal page in the semantic mediawiki of SMW.
This way word of mouth can be spread.
Otto Rehagel, a soccer trainer once said:
Money does not score goals.
As a fan of Borussia Mönchengladbach, a german soccer team
I can tell you how true this is.
If you want to be successfull with a limited budget
it is very important to value volunteer and unpaid work.
Still you need professional support and that might cost thousand or EUROs.
In the long run that investment will be worthwhile
if it is rooted in the volunteere work.
Never every take the approach of a row boat with 8 helmsmen and one rower.