[OHM] We need a forum!

[Andy Townsend]

On 08/04/2016 18:12, Tommy Bruce wrote:
> I would suggest the Reddit page if you guys are looking for a forum 
> friendly page.  Reddit is usually pretty good for organizing and a 
> pretty good forum location.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenHistoricalMap/
>
>
Reddit?  I thought all the cool kids were using Slack now* :)

Seriously, I don't think it's possible to do more than just suggest to 
people places where conversations might take place.  As an OSM DWG 
member I often have to try and figure out where a certain community does 
most of its conversation, and they're pretty variable.  Some use mailing 
lists (some on openstreetmap.org, some elsewhere) some use forums (again 
either forum.openstreetmap.org or elsewhere), some use Facebook, some 
Google+ (!) and some I'm sure others.

"http://forum.osm.org" and "http://help.osm.org" do have one advantage 
over the others in that they use existing OSM credentials.  If Reddit 
works for people, they'll use it.  If anyone wants to add an OHM section 
to the forum then perhaps ask at 
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=8 ?  Likewise I'm sure 
OHM questions asked at the help site and suitably tagged would be answered.

I wouldn't expect a huge amount of traffic though, since OHM doesn't yet 
get a huge number of edits (if I look at the "history" tab over England 
it goes back 4 months).

Cheers,

Andy


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