[Talk-us] Standard (mapnik) toolchain/processes: can we teach these better?

[Mike N]

On 5/26/2014 2:24 PM, stevea wrote:
> It's like the Cool Kids have their "insider club," a world of their own,
> THEN there are The Rest of Us.

  A small part of this is that communication takes place over many 
channels, partially related to the loose organization of OSM.  I 
subscribe to 11 separate OSM email lists and the web and help forum.  I 
don't want to deal with realtime chat, so I don't bother monitoring the 
IRC sections.

   Reading the OSM Weekly Summary blog will go far in addressing your 
feeling of disconnection from other parts of the project.   A possible 
second step would be to subscribe to the OSM-Talk list, although there 
is a small amount of extra discussion that strays in there before moving 
to a more specific list.