[Osmf-talk] Losing faith

[Ivo Stankov]

I am fairly new to OSM (since August 2012) and very new as an OSMF 
member (this is virtually the first thread I am seeing since 
enthusiastically joining a month ago).

None of the names in this list, apart from Steve Coast, say anything to 
me and everything I know about Steve comes from the contents of his 
Wikipedia entry. What I want to say with this is, I know none of you 
personally and have no knowledge of prior politics and feuds amongst you.

As a wide-eyed newcomer, all I can say is, guys, this is just too much 
drama from all sides! "I gave you everything!", "I'm resigning!", 
"Bullies!" etc. Seriously, do you even comprehend how much creative 
energy is lost for such a petty ego fight?! Quite disappointing.

 From following the discussion, my personal opinion is, that the whole 
thing boils down to two questions:
1. Is @openstreetmap an ultra official channel of the OSMF, dealing only 
with official announcements?
     From reading the tweets, I think the answer is no, some are 
playful, some are not that relevant to OSMF, etc. And this is the way it 
should be.
2. Can the community trust Steve Coast, the founder of OSM and 
definitely the most well known face of OSM from the point of view of the 
broad public, to be sensible enough to write tweets from @openstreetmap 
that are beneficial for OSM and not partisan or potentially questionable?
      I do not know him well, but somehow I think this should be a given.

If you ask me, this Grouptweet solution, where the author of the tweet 
is even visible to the outside users, is quite a good idea.

- Ivo


On 15.01.2013 23:28, Mikel Maron wrote:
> Yea, for real.
>
> Doesn't http://grouptweet.com/ solve the problem?
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* "toffehoff at gmail.com" <toffehoff at gmail.com>
>     *To:* Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com>
>     *Cc:* osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:01 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Osmf-talk] Losing faith
>
>     Guys,
>
>     Please quite the whole mudslinging here. It's not really helping
>     the discussion.
>
>     Will the person without sin please throw the first stone.
>
>     Lets try and keep the discussion in a constructive tone and clean
>     of personal attacks ....
>
>     Henk
>
>
>
>     Op 15 jan. 2013, om 22:48 heeft Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com
>     <mailto:steve at asklater.com>> het volgende geschreven:
>
>     >
>     > On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org
>     <mailto:frederik at remote.org>> wrote:
>     >> 4. I'm very sad to see Richard throw in the towel; I felt the
>     same when Emilie resigned in 2011, and I think it is mostly due to
>     both being at the receiving end of what I would call bullying. I
>     don't yet know how to achieve that but it is pretty clear to me
>     that OSMF won't go anywhere if we don't manage to get rid of that
>     problem.
>     >
>     > I've been in OSMF phone calls with you shouting obscenities at
>     people, Fred. Maybe you could start there.
>     >
>     > I think it's inappropriate to make these allusions when you know
>     that there are mails on board@ nobody is seeing and you were not
>     there in prior meetings when Emilie resigned, either.
>     >
>     > Steve
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