[OSM-talk] Digesting the List and the Community

[Nick Black]

I agree, see:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-February/011344.html

Still waiting for some volunteers...


On 2/22/07, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I thought "This week on the OpenStreetMap list..." was such a good idea
> http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=78
>
> Personally, when I get busy, there's no way I can follow all the discussion.
> There are many many people out there involved and interested in OSM, but
> can't keep up.
>
> And that's too bad, cause there's real juicy detailed discussion and
> knowledge in there.
> New editing conventions, techniques, tools, ideas, areas, events.
>
> The OpenGeoData blog is good for highlighting big news, and the featured
> images good
> for watching progress but the detailed nuggets are getting lost. (Is there
> an GeoRSS feed
> for the featured images, btw?).
>
> "This week on " solved this problem by providing a 10000 foot view on our
> community.
> It also makes the community more accessible to new contributors. But I guess
> it only
> ran for one week!
>
> So this is a call out for some motivated, list engaged, clear writing
> individual, to take on this on.
> I know it's a big job .. so I offer to pay the flight to Manchester for
> State of the Map to whoever
> fully takes this on.
>
> -Mikel
>
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