[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Future Look

Matt Amos zerebubuth at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 16:22:58 GMT 2013


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Christian Quest <cquest at openstreetmap.fr> wrote:
>
> 2013/1/8 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> > That is exactly the approach that I would recommend if someone were to ask
> > me how to "move forward" - have a small discussion if you want but
> > essentially, just build the damn thing, or at least a prototype for people
> > to play with, and get people interested.
> >
>
> +1 !
>
> Less talks, more action ;)
>
> OSM like many opensource projects is a do-o-craty...
>
> But some talks are good too to coordinate actions and avoid overlapping work.

+1, too!

a diverse group of people trying new ideas, building cool new stuff
and having fun would seem to be the ideal approach. i certainly think
that such a thing is possible, and that we can build something awesome
together.

of course there's a place in this (as Clifford originally pointed out)
for an equivalent to Red Hat to donate the time of their employees
towards this diverse group, in a similar manner to how the Linux
community works.

the alternative (WMF) suggestion seems like very much a top-down,
committee-oriented thing - i hope the irony of a "five year plan"
wasn't lost on them*. personally, i think this would remove a lot of
the diversity and creativity of the development community.

cheers,

matt

*: "Plan is law, fulfillment is duty, over-fulfillment is honor!"



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