[OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: OpenStreetMap Future Look

[THEVENON Julien]

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Le mer. 9 janv. 2013 13:26 HNEC, Paweł Paprota a écrit :

>Projects like OSM do not run on fairy dust and rainbows. Yesterday I
>watched Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) on The Colbert Report talk
>show and he was talking about Wikipedia's strategy and budget. They
>spend nearly 30 million dollars a year on hardware, network, manpower
>(technical, administrative) just to keep Wikipedia running. Of course it
>is not nearly the same scale as OSM but the same principle starts to
>apply to OSM as I hope everyone wants OSM to be more like Wikipedia in
>terms of users and being well-known. The number of core contributors
>stays pretty much the same for two years now.
>

Hi Pawel,

Since few months I read several articles saying that wikipedia loose contributors (due to more and more constraint it seems to be harder to contribute) and I also see quite a lot of criticism in forums from people complaining about cost of manpower in wikipedia compared to hardware and network costs.
I love wikipedia and the idea of participative common encyclopedia but the fact that some people think that there are negative points like  mentionned above, is very painfull and make me feel that wikipedia is perhaps not a so good model in term of organisation..I hope this will never happen for OSM and that the main words used by external people to talk about OSM will continue to be fun,passion,community etc

hug and thanks for  mappers,users,developers and all people involved in osm

Julien