<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 12:48 PM Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</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">
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<p>A rather large effort was put in to advertising and moving any
discussion of importance there, it definitely wasn't the case that
a community had organically grown up around slack (as can be
argued for use of non open communication media in South America
and elsewhere). In any case what was done once, can be done again.</p></div></blockquote><div> Simon, </div><div>As I recall at the time, Slack was offered up to the community with no heavy push, advertising, threats, cajoling, or even bribes. (Although a bribe would have been nice😀) A number of us were already using Slack for other communities outside of OSM. When Slack was offered as an option, the move from talk-us to Slack was each user deciding which offered better capabilities. Many moved to Slack while others stuck with the mailing list and obviously for a number of us, we choose both. To suggest otherwise with no proof isn't appropriate. </div><div><br></div><div>I think I can speak for others in saying we respect the rights of people not to use Slack because it is a proprietary system. We live in a world with so many choices which unfortunately makes reaching consensus hard. But not impossible.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Clifford</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_washington<br></div><div><a href="https://www.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">www.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>