[Talk-us] OSM US Trails Working Group

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 12:45 2021-10-10, Simon Poole đã viết:
> 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.

I don't understand how one could arrive at this characterization of the 
community on OSMUS Slack as being somehow inorganic (artificial? 
inauthentic?) without having joined the workspace to see for oneself.

Personally, over several years, I've put as much effort into inviting 
mappers to join the talk-us or talk-us-sfbay mailing lists as I have 
OSMUS Slack or Code for San José Slack, usually in the same breath. 
Virtually everyone who responded joined Slack but didn't subscribe to a 
mailing list. I respect their decision, even if it may be suboptimal by 
some standard.

Ideally, a community member wouldn't have to choose between a 
proprietary system and two open but bewildering systems (mailing list 
and wiki) when attempting to document for posterity how their fellow 
local mappers have collectively decided to tag something. I look forward 
to Discourse becoming a solid alternative. Who knows, "Decisions go on 
Discourse" could be the new catchphrase on Slack before long.

In the meantime, those who do sign up for Slack will find a community 
that's earnestly debating and seeking a workable consensus on off-limits 
trails, among other things. It's a community of OSM mappers first and 
foremost, just like the subscribers to this list.

-- 
minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us