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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">23 May 2019, 21:58 by nbolten@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>in-person<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Well, it is hard to beat in-person contact.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="16px" text-align="left">, personal emails, slack, etc.<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">My experience with both and mailing lists is very similar as far as quality of conversation goes.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>- The same 8 or so people respond to posts out of a community of tens of thousands of people, companies, non-profits, etc.<br></div><div><div>- The odd situation of absolute certainty in completely incompatible opinions from those that do respond.<br></div></div><div>- Difficult for people to discover. How do we know that the opinions shared here are in any way representative of the community, given that so few discover + participate in it?<br></div><div>- Difficult to filter for relevance. Have to set up email filters and/or specialized search queries.<br></div><div>- Zero real synchronization with OSM editors, the only way people add data to the map. Blame doled out everywhere, but very little in the way of collaboration, no real venue for doing so (see previous bullet points).<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I see no difference between slack, personal emails and mailing list for this points.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Though personal emails are even worse in category "to discover" and <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">in managing separate conversations.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Though I am confused what you mean by "Zero real synchronization with OSM editors"<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Gripes aside, I have a suggestion: move these discussions to a real forum system, properly organized around regional/topic-specific/tagging discussions. It could be a revamped <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/">https://forum.openstreetmap.org/</a><br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">What is wrong with a current forum?<br></div> </body>
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