<div dir="ltr"><div>As a moderator of the US subcategory on the forum, I encourage Canadian community members to volunteer to moderate, and I want to provide some perspective. It's a pretty small commitment—all you need to do is proactively monitor discussions within the community and respond to incidents in a timely manner. If you like to stay up to date on community discussions, and you're confident that other Canadian OSMers trust you, this is an easy task.</div><div><br></div><div>Discourse makes it easy to communicate across language barriers. Considering Canada is a multilingual country with a monolingual majority, and posts are written in both English and French on this mailing list, I have no doubt the translation features would be helpful to the Canadian community. No machine translation is perfect, but it's certainly convenient.<br></div><div><br></div><div>While the US hasn't given up on its other communication channels just yet, Discourse has been a good addition to the toolbox. We've been using it more and more for the kinds of discussions that used to take place on the talk-us@ mailing list, and it's helped link our local discussions with the global OSM community.</div><div><br></div><div>It's up to y'all. Again, moderating a subcategory is a small commitment and I encourage you to help out.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Clay<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:35 PM Graptemys via Talk-ca <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Hi all,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">We are looking for three volunteers to moderate a new Canada subcategory on the OSM Community Forum. This would give OSM contributors another place to ask questions and participate in the community.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The only requirements are that you are an active member of the community and that you can fulfill the moderation duties. Please comment here if you are interested:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/canada-subcategory/97746" target="_blank">https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/canada-subcategory/97746</a><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span>Thanks<br></span></div>
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