[OSM-talk] Shoud OSM Help move to Stackexchange community?

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Dan Dascalescu
<ddascalescu+OSMtalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> What do people think of moving this OSM help to the Stackexchange community.
> I think that benefits would be tremendous, better marketing, possible new
> users would see this great project and all other positive things that could
> help boost this osm community. (Note that logging in with StackExchange's
> OpenID URL works, but that won't bring any of these benefits).

Agreed. I think the negative comments below are somewhat symptomatic
of how isolated the OSM community can be: rather than seeing an
opportunity to recruit new members and connect with other communities,
people are focusing on a pretty minor inconvenience: the need to
possibly acquire a new username/password. Many (most?) people have a
Google account these days - if anything, we should be moving in that
direction, not trying to hold onto our own private auth universe.

(I can't really speak for the overall value of moving to SE. For a
long time I actually thought that help.osm site *was* on SE - the
branding was so similar.)

Steve