[OSM-talk] STFU

Chris Hill osm at raggedred.net
Sat Feb 2 21:23:20 GMT 2013


Maybe a few of you braver than the brave, loud-mouthed, armchair lawyers 
should just STFU and give the board a break.

When some of you have had as much abuse and hassle in an unpaid job they 
volunteered for, in their spare time, maybe then you would understand 
how hard it is to please all of the people all of the time. Impossible 
is the answer.

*IF* mistakes have been made, then they are honest mistakes made by 
volunteers who stepped up to the mark to try to make OSM better.

*IF* mistakes have been made, AFAIK no real harm has been done. The 
worst damage so far is to the pompous, over-sensitive "We Must Know 
Everything" brigade who feel offended because they have not been 
informed of every breath drawn. To them I say: Grow Up. An Open 
community doesn't mean getting an email, text, tweet and personal letter 
every time something happens. That's why we have a board - to deal with 
stuff.

To the board I say, do your best guys and thank you very much for what 
you do and how you do it. Don't be tempted to pick up the toys thrown 
out of prams by a small group of people. That mistake was made during 
licence-change and it just caused more upset. You were elected for a 
term (at least) to do your best, so do it and good luck.

Threats to leave the project remind me of the bullshit thrown around 
during licence-change when hardly anyone actually had the balls to 
follow through. If people are so unhappy then go, but do so quickly and 
quietly and leave the people really interested in OSM to continue making 
the very best map database we can.

-- 
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
  




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