[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Clifford Snow]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 12:48 PM Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> A rather large effort was put in to advertising and moving any discussion
> of importance there, it definitely wasn't the case that a community had
> organically grown up around slack (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.
>
 Simon,
As I recall at the time, Slack was offered up to the community with no
heavy push, advertising, threats, cajoling, or even bribes. (Although a
bribe would have been nice😀) A number of us were already using Slack for
other communities outside of OSM. When Slack was offered as an option, the
move from talk-us to Slack was each user deciding which offered better
capabilities. Many moved to Slack while others stuck with the mailing list
and obviously for a number of us, we choose both. To suggest otherwise with
no proof isn't appropriate.

I think I can speak for others in saying we respect the rights of people
not to use Slack because it is a proprietary system. We live in a world
with so many choices which unfortunately makes reaching consensus hard. But
not impossible.

Best,
Clifford

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