[OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

[Paweł Paprota]

On 01/09/2013 01:37 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> I may be a grumpy old dinosaur but I don't see how diluting the
> Openstreetmap brand into the bland broth of proprietary centralized
> social services that plague the Internet nowadays will bring any
> value...

Simple question then: you go to osm.org and want to find out what's new
in the project. How do you do that? Where do you find project
announcements like the recent 1 million users news?

None of the links from the home page are obvious enough. You can go to
"Documentation" and there's the wiki where you can find news on the
front page but that's hardly obvious.

I don't mean to spread misinformation about Communication Working
Group's job here so correct me if I'm wrong but OSM does have an
official Facebook account[1] and official Twitter account which do have
such announcements. It seems only natural to promote those channels from
the main page and I will try to provide a patch for that.

I don't like those "propietary centralized social services that plague
Internet nowadays" either but I don't think OSM is the right bastion to
fight this particular war...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap
[2] https://twitter.com/openstreetmap

Paweł