<html><head></head><body>I have no memory of sending this message. <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 6, 2015 10:38:29 PM GMT, Andrew Hain <andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Jo Walsh <metazool <at> <a
href="http://fastmail.net">fastmail.net</a>> writes:<br /><br
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<br /> Attack is the best form of defence?<br /> Sorry, I don't have
much sense of the OSM community as it currently<br
/></blockquote>exists, and I just re-joined the list, where it seems
like others leap in<br />with confrontational tone. It has been some
years since I was actively<br />involved in OSM and i'm so glad that
it's hitting the public radar in the<br />way that my Twitter feed
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<br /> <br /> I don't mean to aggress or to show off, if that's how
my suddenly<br /></blockquote>reappearing presence has come off; this
is a genuine question for all of<br />those contributing
suggestions to the list; water it up or down according to<br />extent of commitment. I just accidentally got a bit overcommitted to OSM.<br /><br />Although lots of people have managed to do lots of constructive work the<br />past few months have been the most argumentative since the Australian clique<br />were at their worst as a cascade of long-running dissatisfactions have come<br />to the boil like dominoes. It’s time for everyone (including myself) to take<br />a deep breath, but we can’t just let frustrations build up again and we<br />really need to work on a stronger culture of harmony (we can have strong and<br />differing opinions of course) and not just a surface appearance; lurkers on<br />our communication channels aren’t the real audience.<br /><br />--<br />Andrew<br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />talk mailing list<br />talk@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br
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