[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Greg Troxel]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 10/8/21 20:31, Tod Fitch wrote:
>> I am a bit miffed that this discussion will be on Slack.
>
> Yes, not the best if you want to be inclusive. But, whichever medium
> you choose you'll exclude some people who refuse to use it. As long as
> it remains informal and you're not later told "this was agreed on
> Slack" I guess it's ok.

There are two aspects to communication channels.  One is that people
have preferences and solving that is basically intractable.

The other is proprietary services involving the necessity to use
proprietary software and sign agreements with particular companies.
That is in my view the real issue: Slack is a singleton service where
you have to sign an agreement with them, and then you have to run their
software (even if only in the browser).  This is philosophically
incompatible with an open data project.
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