[OSM-talk] OSM User Groups - London Mailing list started

[Nick Black]

> I'm not sure that dividing up the resources we have (at this stage) is
> such a great plan. It's certainly not getting to the stage where
> discussion on the list of London centric issues is getting annoying for
> me.


The mailing list is jammed.  Creating more specialised lists will let people
select which areas (geographic and technical) they are intereseted in and
focus on them.  At the moment I ignore maybe 30% of dev and talk posts and
scan through another 30%, I imagine a lot of people are the same.


But even if it was, I think we've got so much to learn, and that so
> many of the lessons to learn will be location-independant that it'd
> probably be useful to hear anyhow, so that when there are more people
> contributing near me I know how best to work with them.


The main reason for starting regional lists is to support regional user
groups.  The idea is that we will remove a layer of abstraction and
physically meet other OSM members (cf. Isle of Wight).  I think that this
will greatly enhance the communication and sharing of ideas between OSM
members, rather than impeed it.  We still have other mailing lists and the
Wiki for communication with the project.  Second, I think that starting
local groups will help to increase both the democracy and autonomy within
OSM.  WIth the formation of the OSM-Foundation imminent, it is important
that there is a strong local support base upon which the Foundation can
build.  Autonomy will also help to ease some of the administrative
bottlenecks that are currently hampering the progress of the project.


jammeh
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