[Talk-lt] Pasiūlymas dėl OSM Lietuva socialino tinklo (ne Facebook)

[Simonas Kazlauskas]

Rihards wrote:
>Thanks, as a Latvian community we are not strictly opensource software
>project, but will consider seeking sponsorship as a community project.
>
>An instance for a bigger region is a bit outside our ambitions for now -
>that would be a major effort, that would also require coordination and
>consensus between multiple communities.
>It would also mean that each country gets one stream only - we currently
>imagined splitting things a bit more in streams (for example, splitting out
>the cycling infrastructure discussions).
>This makes it easier to follow more narrow topics one might be interested
>in, and might also serve as a marketing angle (people who are interested in
>cycling stuff only are more likely to look at such a stream instead of
>hunting for topics that are buried among dozens of tram, building, address
>topics).
>Not sure how a central instance could solve this problem.

At a risk of this getting quite off-topic for the list…

What I’ve seen done in the instances I’m part of is having multiple flavours of 
streams. I mentioned project-specific streams in my previous reply as an 
example. Team-specific streams is another. In practice, this idea could be 
applied to topical streams just as well. So, for example, with a global 
instance, `#latvia` would end up being a catch-all stream (a-la `#general`) for 
all Latvian contributors, but then `#latvia/cycling` and 
`#latvia/public-transportation` could be created as the more fine-grained 
streams as needed by the Latvian community. And so on for all the other 
participating communities & their areas of interest. That’s just an example, 
though, streams are quite flexible in how they can be used.

The benefit of having a global instance is all about the ability to have streams 
like… A fictional `#project/baltic-tourism-maps` or `#project/josm` and such 
that naturally involve people from multiple countries.

Another benefit is in that creating a stream for a curious-to-check-it-out 
community is just way easier than having them to create an instance & getting 
the sponsorship figured out.

>BTW, looks like your sentence got cut?
>"it has some resemblance to..."

Ah, I meant to say “it has some resemblance to the mailing lists many are 
already used to. More-so than other IM tools.”

>As for the public archives, yes, we are hoping to use them - once we have
>the self-hosted instance or sponsorship, as that does not seem to be
>available with the basic free option.
>Making a note, once we get to possible sponsorship, will ping you in case
>of any difficulties :)
>
>-- 
> Rihards

For what its worth https://openstreetmap.zulipchat.com/ seems to exist already, 
although it appears to require invites, so it might just be somebody squatting 
the name. https://osm.zulipchat.com is available though.

Cheers,
S.