[Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

[Serge Wroclawski]

Based on some feedback I've received from people inside and outside
the OSM community, I've created a new list: osm-professional:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osm-professional

This list will be for discussions of OpenStreetMap in work. The
initial area I see this useful in is governments looking to contribute
data to OSM, but I've already been contacted by commercial interests
looking at consuming OSM data, and so this list will be a good
cleaninghouse for discussions on those issues.

It'll also be a bit less free-form than this list. osm-professional
will be semi-moderated and while talk can get a bit rowdy sometimes,
the new list will be a bit more controlled. The list won't be US centric,
but since it's an English-speaking list, I'd expect mostly folks from the
US, Canada and the UK (though everyone is invited to join).

If you're looking at using, or contributing to OSM in a professional
context, please consider joining this new list.

- Serge