[Osmf-talk] Communications and osmf-talk (Was: Reaching out and diversity (Was: Re: AGM and board elections))

[Wolfgang Zenker]

Hi everyone,

* Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> [140930 22:02]:
> [..]
> Looking back at the thread, I'm sure multiple of the participants were
> not aware that it was only part of a larger web of communication some of
> which goes back to the first half of this year, contains old bones that
> are still being picked, stuff that the OSMF was not involved in at all
> and parallel threads on twitter, irc and other social media (and now svn
> trac).

thanks for pointing this out, I was not aware of this.

> You simply can not assume that you are getting the full picture and are
> participating on a single continuous thread of communication between all
> participants.

Well, but ...

> Nothing we can do about this, but I suspect the utility of osmf-talk as
> a semi-private mailing list has outlived itself given that the model
> actively provokes parallel comms. I would suggest either doing away with
> it completely or scoping it strictly to OSMF business.

.. how would your proposed solution help? Instead of an incomplete
picture, people like me that don't have Google/Twitter/Facebook/Whatever-
accounts would get no picture at all. And no, I would not consider
making any non-OSM accounts a requirement for being active in the OSMF
an acceptable solution.

Wolfgang