COSCUP 2025

The weeklyOSM is a volunteer-run newsletter that shares what’s happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world — every single week. Since October 2014, it has been published in multiple languages, and by 2025, we’ve reached over 770 issues. It’s made possible by a global group of contributors, including dedicated members of the Taiwanese OSM community.

In this talk, we’ll give you a peek behind the curtain and show how each issue comes together. We’ll walk through how we collect news from OSM diaries, blogs, and community channels using a tool called OSMBC. Then we’ll explain how articles are written in English, reviewed for accuracy, and translated into different languages before being published. All of this happens thanks to a team of volunteers, working across time zones and languages.

We’ll also share how local communities like Taiwan help make weeklyOSM better — both by translating content and by making sure local news gets into the global conversation.

Of course, we’ll talk about some of the challenges too: keeping up weekly momentum, finding new contributors, and making sure the content stays relevant for both new mappers and long-time contributors.

If you’re curious about how weeklyOSM works, or if you’ve ever thought about contributing, come join us! We hope to spark ideas for how communities can work together to share news, knowledge, and updates — and keep the OSM world connected.