[OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 1. How many people are too incompetent to understand the initial announcement.

One thing you can generally say about communication is that when
communication fails, blaming the receiving party gets you nowhere. If
an ad campaign fails, you don't blame consumers - you blame the ad
company. If a company-wide email fails to have an effect, you could
blame all employees - but that gets you nowhere. I think the same goes
here - if the existing communication strategy was perceived as
ineffective, it's simply unproductive to blame the people reading
those communication channels. You can personally hold that view, but
people aren't suddenly going to become more attentive to mailing lists
or whatever.

Steve