[Tagging] Loomio evaluation

[David Bannon]

On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 19:07 +0100, Kotya Karapetyan wrote:


> We'll definitely need to find a smart and soft way to attract people
> to a different platform. 

I think its better than the email list. For a number of reasons. And
while the list also wins a couple of points, overall, Loomio is better.

But I don't think its better by enough to drag everyone over there to
use it. To make people abandon something they are comfortable with, it
needs to be heaps better and current system needs to have some major
problem. And I don't think that is the case.

I would be willing to move but not so much I'd pressure others to go
there as well.

David


> However, though I agree that email is not the best tool, we need a
> very good alternative rather than a marginally better option first.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         OSM is a very large community with much accumulated knowledge
>         and
>         skill - it's bound to be quite conservative, and for good
>         reason. The
>         challenge is to allow experimental innovations to breathe
>         without
>         disrupting the community. We'll never be able to organise a
>         vote (ha!)
>         to switch to loomio all at once. But if we decide Loomio is
>         worth
>         trying, maybe we can experimentally agree to use it to
>         negotiate some
>         small tagging subproject, in a particular tag namespace.
>         (indoor
>         tagging might be a good example?) Then inch by inch we see
>         what works.
>         
>         Dan
>         
>         
>         2015-03-23 0:18 GMT+00:00 Dave Swarthout
>         <daveswarthout at gmail.com>:
>         > I'll second the notion that we need something better than
>         the current
>         > system. It is an anachronism!
>         >
>         > My first look at Loomio was good, I was impressed, but my
>         immediate thought
>         > was, it'll never get accepted into OSM
>         >
>         > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Dan S <danstowell
>         +osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >>
>         >> It's interesting. I hadn't realised it's open-source too,
>         so osm could
>         >> run its own version of it if we wanted to.
>         >>
>         >> Dan
>         >>
>         >> 2015-03-20 22:38 GMT+00:00 Kotya Karapetyan
>         <kotya.lists at gmail.com>:
>         >> > Dear all,
>         >> >
>         >> > In an attempt to find a better tool for our proposal
>         discussions, Loomio
>         >> > has
>         >> > been mentioned. At the very first glance it looks like a
>         feasible
>         >> > alternative to the mailing list and the forum.
>         >> >
>         >> > Let's take a look together:
>         >> > https://www.loomio.org/g/tknueHrw/osm-tagging
>         >> >
>         >> > And let me know if you want to check the coordinator
>         role.
>         >> >
>         >> > Cheers,
>         >> > Kotya
>         >> >
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