[Talk-us] New List: osm-professional

[Randy]

Richard Weait wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski 
><emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Frederik Ramm 
>><frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
>>>Stop. - Are you saying that osm-professional is intended as a copy of
>>>osm-talk just moderated?
>>
>>I see osm-professional as mainly focusing on a new audience of people
>>who currently aren't subscribed to any OSM list, with a focus on
>>people using osm in a professional context.
>>
>>If it's similar to any other list, it'd probably be "newbies"- but
>>newbies is really about getting involved in the project in the sense
>>of contributing to the project, where I see osm-professional as about
>>people who may not want to be individual contributors but still have a
>>connection to OSM.
>
>Perhaps "Newbies" is the answer.
>Traffic is lower.
>We try to restrain ourselves from diving into perpetual tagging, etc.,
>discussions.
>"Newbies" already has the expectation that questions should be
>answered without a dose of "that's a stupid question."
>To succeed "Newbies" needs a number of folks willing to answer
>questions for folks not already steeped in the culture of OSM.  And a
>number of new folks to ask questions.
>
>I think the expectation of acceptable behaviour is in place at
>Newbies.  I think the demographics are so similar that no revision of
>mandates is required.  The only thing missing is a way to make "new
>OSM pros" think that they aren't being treated like "newbies", because
>obviously, the are professionals.
>
>ln -s newbies osm-professional   # enh?  See what I did there?

I sure don't understand what all the fuss is about. If there was an NTTP 
group where I didn't agree with the management process, I just wouldn't 
join it. Is the fuss because it has "openstreetmap" in its name? Maybe it 
should just be gmane.comp.gis.professionals_interested_in_mapping. Surely 
no one is so dictatorial about anarchy that they couldn't stomach that!

-- 
Randy