[talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

[SteveC]

On Jul 7, 2011, at 18:39, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since the ban on all contributors who didn't sign the CTs, and ban on all
>> new contributors from using NearMap and other CC-BY/CC-BY-SA sources, I'm no
>> longer actively contributing to the OSM database. Instead I am now actively
>> contributing to the fosm database. I am interested to hear what other active
>> Australian OSM contributors will be doing now.
> 
> I'm pretty much contributing to OSM as I always have. I don't have
> much interest in a fringe fork populated mainly by the disgruntled. It
> reminds me a bit of Citizendium - the fork of Wikipedia you've
> probably never heard of.
> 
> Of course, my continuing with OSM is not a vote of confidence in the
> licence chance process - I really resent many parts of the way it's
> been handled, particularly Frederik Ramm's dismissive attitude. I
> really wish OSM had someone of Jimmy Wales' calibre as a community
> leader.
> 

I better start charging some expensive steak dinners to the foundation then :-)

Seriously though, Fred has just been doing this for multiple years and so he's merely showing his frustration. If you met him in person you'd find him one of the most careful and thougful people in the project.

Steve 


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