[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Simon Poole]

A rather large effort was put in to advertising the channel and moving 
and discussion of importance there, it definitely wasn't the case that a 
community had organically grown up around it (as can be argued for use 
of non open communication media in South America and elsewhere). In any 
case what was done once, can be done again.

Am 10.10.2021 um 21:06 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan:
> Simon, I think that sounds a bit conspiracy-like when you say 
> "forceably moved to Slack". When a new communication system was 
> created and offered to the community, the vast majority of people 
> chose to use it for communication for one simple reason - convenience. 
> No one "forced" me to use it - I dislike email discussions due to low 
> participation (same few people tend to be the only ones emailing), and 
> how unproductive it tends to be.
>
> P.S. Slack clearly goes beyond USA -- #local-canada (50 users), 
> #local-africa (55),  #australia (31), and many other channels.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 2:52 PM Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch 
> <mailto:simon at poole.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Naturally at the time when the US community was more or less
>     forceably moved to Slack, there wasn't a preponderance of usage at
>     all. It was more a question of control.
>
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