[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Eric Patrick]

Slack, Discord, FB, mailing list, text, IRC, yahoo messenger, Hangouts,
pornhub chat room, OnlyFans messenger, that thing Baloo uses (which seems
to be as old as IRC). Did I cover them all? Does it matter where something
is discussed as long as it’s being discussed? As technology evolves, so too
will how things get discussed. I for one am not a fan of the email system,
as i get alerts all day long when the discussion gets going. I’m more of a
fan of Slack & Doscord as I don’t get alerts all day long and can go back
later in the day and catch up in a thread (slack) or scroll through the
discord room. They’re also more real time than email is. I can quickly
counter a point or have a point countered as it’s real time. With email, I
have to read 20 different emails before I can respond. Now, everyone’s
email is getting 15 different emails because I responded to 15 different
people, one email at a time.

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 16:48 Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

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