<div dir="ltr"><div>Just a data point, if OSM is anything like Wikimedia: anywhere outside of the US and Western Europe, mapper conversations are likely already happening <i>primarily</i> (and possibly even <i>exclusively</i>) on Facebook. And in the US and Western Europe, mapper conversations among people who joined in the past 1-3 years are also likely already happening at least in large part on Facebook. The question is not whether you should start conversations there; the question is whether or not you're engaging with and benefiting from the conversations that are already happening.<br><br></div><div>Luis<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:30 AM Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@ir.bbn.com">gdt@ir.bbn.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Bryan Housel <<a href="mailto:bryan@7thposition.com" target="_blank">bryan@7thposition.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> Relax, I am not saying “contributors must have a Facebook account”,<br>
> rather I am saying “People with a Facebook account should be able to<br>
> join a local interest mapping group”.<br>
><br>
> This is about increasing the number of casual mappers interested in<br>
> OSM. For example, Maptime is an organization that runs local meetups<br>
> for this purpose. They currently seem to prefer Meeetup/Twitter, but<br>
> I think a stronger presence on Facebook would do more to further their<br>
> aims.<br>
<br>
Sure, but what tends to happen is that the local osm group the organizes<br>
on $OBJECTIONABLE_PLATFORM and those that don't use it are marginalized.<br>
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