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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hold on here…we were *<b>forced</b>* to move to Slack? I didn’t get this impression at all. As a member of the US community I have never felt that I was forced to move to Slack. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Evin (compdude)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">Simon Poole</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, October 10, 2021 11:56 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>; <a href="mailto:yuriastrakhan@gmail.com">Yuri Astrakhan</a>; <a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com">Brian M. Sperlongano</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">Frederik Ramm</a>; <a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Naturally at the time when the US community was more or less forceably moved to Slack, there wasn't a preponderance of usage at all. It was more a question of control.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Am 10. Oktober 2021 20:38:13 MESZ schrieb Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan@gmail.com>:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 2:25 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think it's wonderful that each community is able to decide for themselves which media they choose to gravitate to and coalesce around, whether that be the OSM Forums, Email lists, Slack, an undisclosed pub in Vilnius, or whatever collaboration tool that the community prefers as evidenced by the preponderance of usage.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> Thank you Brian, I agree that "the preponderance of usage" should be the most important factor to consider. "openness" of a platform is irrelevant if only a few fans use it. After all, IRC is by far more open, yet it has just a tiny fraction of active users compared with a closed platform like Slack.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit Kaiten Mail gesendet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>