[Osmf-talk] Commitment to open communication channels

[Heather Leson]

Hi I appreciate this effort. However, this has a risk of also becoming a
niche and exclusive club. Many parts of OSM use facebook, twitter and viber
for their communications.

I think we also need to also be open to the communications channels that
OSM audiences and contributors use.

Thank you

Heather


On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, 01:05 Tobias Knerr, <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:

> On 16.08.20 22:58, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > To me this seems to reaffirm something we're already doing at present,
> > rather than change anything. Am I correct or would such a commitment
> > mean that something would change as a result?
>
> According to working groups' responses and in my own experience, we are
> by and large already practising this. WGs have mentioned some peripheral
> room for improvement (CWG is working on mirroring some content onto open
> microblogging platforms, for example), but this certainly isn't intended
> to bring about any kind of major shift in how we do things.
>
> Personally, I hope this commitment can offer reassurance that our use of
> open platforms is not an accident, and will continue to be something we
> care about. With a few proprietary OSM channels gaining prominence over
> the past years, this has been a concern for some people, e.g. during
> last year's community survey and in conversations at OSM events. I don't
> want OSM contributors who forgo proprietary platforms to feel like they
> are missing out.
>
> As an additional benefit, this step makes some of the reasons behind our
> current practices explicit (to help people understand why we're doing
> things the way we do), and perhaps it can inspire other groups inside
> and outside the OSM ecosystem to follow along.
>
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