[OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

[Eric Marsden]

On 18/10/2012 10:41, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>    I have the impression that you are trying to make a large conflict 
> out of a small issue. The overwhelming majority of the French OSM 
> community has never had an issue with DWG, yet you are trying to cast 
> this into a "the French community against the DWG" battle.

Please check the archives of the talk-fr mailing list. This issue has 
led to multiple threads and hundreds of messages over the last few 
months. Almost all of them are opposed to and disappointed by the 
behaviour of the OSMF DWG; many of them question the legitimacy of your 
mandate to act on this issue.

In fact in a broader way, I see this as a DWG-vs-local-communities 
issue. If you are not able to understand that working with local 
community correspondants is a far better approach than threatening 
contributors in a language which they can be presumed not to understand; 
if you continue to ignore all requests for debate on issues of 
governance, then your behaviour is a serious obstacle to the 
reinforcement of local communities, and thus in my view a significant 
threat to the Openstreetmap project.


> I have the impression that you are fighting a personal vendetta here 
> because you were personally asked to follow the separate-import 
> guideline, you rejected that, and you got blocked. Now it's ok if 
> you're unhappy and you're free to say that, but in attempt at styling 
> this into a "the whole French community is on my side, I have done 
> nothing wrong" battle you are actually abusing the French community 
> for your cause.

Neither of my OSM accounts have ever been blocked, as far as I can tell. 
If members of the French community feel they are being abused by me, 
they are sufficiently grown up to say so themselves.

Please address the substance of my message, instead of speculating on my 
motivations.

Eric