[Osmf-talk] Commitment to open communication channels

[Mateusz Konieczny]

There is nothing here that forbids usage of
Facebook, Twitter  other proprietary services,
in addition to open services.

17 Aug 2020, 08:35 by heatherleson at gmail.com:

> 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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