[Osmf-talk] Commitment to open communication channels

[Andy Townsend]

On 17/08/2020 09:54, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Heather Leson ha scritto:
>> 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 don't think it's the case. The core part of the original request, if I
> understand it correctly, is "Essential communications will always be
> accessible through an open, preferably self-hosted platform.
> They may be published on proprietary channels as well, but only in
> addition to an open channel."

That's pretty much how I've been interpreting it - things that people 
"really ought to be able to read" will be written somewhere that's 
public, rather than a private channel from which content might disappear 
at any time (like Facebook, etc.).

That doesn't mean that I won't engage with mappers in a private channel 
such as e.g. the OSM-US Slack one or OSM-UK's Loomio one, but it does 
mean if I'm writing something that needs to be accessible to everyone 
it'll go somewhere else first.  Ad hoc messages (Slack or IRC-level 
background chat) won't necessarily get written somewhere else first 
because they're just background chat - they aren't essential messages 
that people might have to read later, and also the context would be lost 
elsewhere too.

Best Regards,

Andy (from the DWG)