Hello dear Ebrahim,
Great! I am very glad to have you as the voice of the community there, and I believe this is a great opportunity to introduce the community as an institution that is co-ordinating and pursuing the goals set in advance. And I hope all the points that friends have in mind about their concerns, can help you to have a good and comprehensive speech. In the following, I’ll tell you a few things that may help you for the introduction and for drawing the timeline of our chat group.
I do not know exactly how many years, but I’m sure the community’s activity is much more than two years old, and maybe it’s nearly five years old, but I believe that the most important happenings in the community (except the formation of the chat group in Telegram, which is sure to be a big step) has occurred over the past two years. This group, formed by the small number but influential people, mostly from Khorasan, such as Dr. Jullaie, who appeared to be introduced to OSM by Cladius (who did good job with the map of Mashhad), and with Mr. Hamid Reza Heidari stepped forward. And gradually, with the help of friends like Navid Hosseinzadeh using mechanized methods in recent years, it has been developed very quickly, as it was recognized by many local application developers and individuals active in its rivals’ affiliates. At least in the last year, people with motivational, technical and fresh feelings such as Sosha Mosleh, Iman Moghimi and Ebrahim Hassanzadeh have done a lot of fundamental work to organize the whole movement and create goals and aspirations, and protect the achievements of the community so far, that only It was not about the map itself, and there were plenty of works that it was associated with OSM in various ways. In the meantime, many people struggled with cross-sectional and permanent efforts to draw up and complete the map and data, or to produce educational content, to train novices and new people, and to manage the group and community, which may not have been as effective as what has been done by the above said people, but we can not say that there were less. I apologize for all the friends who have not been named here because I do not have the memory right now and I want other friends to help me out and mention the friends and people who influence the overall movement that I’ve forgot to mention. Of course, purpose is not to list people, but mentioning people and their activities can help Ebrahim prepare his speech.
I wish you all success.