[OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

[Lester Caine]

guiguid at free.fr wrote:
> Please show me that I'm making jugement mistake, and show me that our
> work, after beeing uncertain by licence, isn't threatened by
> centralistic, autoritative, english only person who can set live or dead by
> non community based decisions.

There is a lot of good support available world wide, but perhaps unfortunately 
the only language many of us can use is English, and it surprises me at times 
that some discussions on the lists are carried out in better English than I use 
myself by people who don't even speak it! :)

YES we need a little more diversity, but we also need to ensure that the SAME 
methods are used world wide, and here a 'centralistic' rule base is essential. 
And on top of that we need to help one another provide the tools that ensure 
that the 'guide lines' are followed.

Alright, this particular 'incident' was not handled perhaps as well as it could 
have been, and the correct information to make decisions HAS now been made 
available, but if a request is made then I don't think it is unreasonable to 
expect someone else who speaks English to help sort out the problem. I've not 
looked back through the 'history' but it sounds as if we SHOULD have been having 
this discussion in March? And been helping you at that stage to better manage 
the use of this data? There is a lot of good expertise available so the one 
thing we do NOT want is smaller groups doing their own thing :(

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