[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Future Look

[Paweł Paprota]

On 01/09/2013 03:05 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
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> My idea of dealing with this complex situation is to:

This all sounds nice but has it been done on a scale that OSM needs it
to work? Are there large projects that have this kind of organization
that you describe?

There are dozens of large open source communities (Apache Software
Foundation, KDE, Ubuntu etc.) that we can learn from. I would say more -
not only learn from but by looking at those projects we can see what's
possible. Some of those communities have been around for a decade or
more - my theory is that it is safe to assume that between them all they
tried more or less everything in terms of organizing themselves.

So what we can choose from is out there today and working. Everything
else has failed the test of time. I don't think we want to be pioneers
and try something enitrely new that has not been done or, even worse,
try something that was tried before and failed (why repeat mistakes of
others?).

Paweł