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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm not sure that dividing up the resources we have (at this stage) is<br>such a great plan. It's certainly not getting to the stage where
<br>discussion on the list of London centric issues is getting annoying for<br>me. </blockquote><div><br>
The mailing list is jammed. Creating more specialised lists will
let people select which areas (geographic and technical) they are
intereseted in and focus on them. At the moment I ignore maybe
30% of dev and talk posts and scan through another 30%, I imagine a lot
of people are the same.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But even if it was, I think we've got so much to learn, and that so<br>many of the lessons to learn will be location-independant that it'd
<br>probably be useful to hear anyhow, so that when there are more people<br>contributing near me I know how best to work with them.</blockquote><div><br>
The main reason for starting regional lists is to support regional user
groups. The idea is that we will remove a layer of abstraction
and physically meet other OSM members (cf. Isle of Wight). I
think that this will greatly enhance the communication and sharing of
ideas between OSM members, rather than impeed it. We still have
other mailing lists and the Wiki for communication with the
project. Second, I think that starting local groups will help to
increase both the democracy and autonomy within OSM. WIth the
formation of the OSM-Foundation imminent, it is important that there is
a strong local support base upon which the Foundation can build.
Autonomy will also help to ease some of the administrative bottlenecks
that are currently hampering the progress of the project. <br>
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