[OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

[Tom MacWright]

Hi there,

> I am with OSM for 5 years and I do not fully know who is responsible
for things, who has the final words on other things. I often see names
reappear here and there, and over time I got some ideas but it would be
really nice to just have an overview of the actual "executive" teams of
those parts of OSM that not everyone can edit.

There are no executive teams. This push was John, Saman, and myself. Nobody
appointed us, we just did it. Tom Hughes (TomH) pushes the merge button and
makes sure nothing blows up when he does, apart from the community.
Previous changes have looked the same: a few people work on a patch, the
community discusses it, and if there's some modicum of agreement it goes
forward via the people-who-touch-the-server-directly, which in the case of
the website, is TomH.

Cheers,

Tom, author of the presentation system that does the obnoxiously huge
anti-readable text


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Johannes Kröger <
johannes.kroeger at hcu-hamburg.de> wrote:

> > Where would you
> > stop if it was decided to post announcements to the community.
>
> http://blog.openstreetmap.org/ would be the perfect news channel. It
> allows passive and active participation without the need of
> registering or installing specific software. You can point anyone at it
> and they see a normal website. You can add it to your feed reader or
> bookmarks and follow anything important going on.
>
> It would just need to be linked to on the homepage.
>
> As a user it is impossible to follow all the channels. If you decide to
> follow everything you get overwhelmed by a lot of technical jargon you
> don't understand, noise that you as "dumb user" don't need to
> understand (bug reports/discussion for example) and lots of pointless
> bikeshedding. And if you were still receptive, then you might still not
> know what ends up being implemented.
>
> Asking not to flood developers with negative comments (or any kind
> really) is orthogonal with suggesting everyone to directly follow
> development on github and -dev mailinglists!
>
> I am with OSM for 5 years and I do not fully know who is responsible
> for things, who has the final words on other things. I often see names
> reappear here and there, and over time I got some ideas but it would be
> really nice to just have an overview of the actual "executive" teams of
> those parts of OSM that not everyone can edit.
>
> Apart from the missing zoom bar and the non-descript icons I really
> like the redesign so please don't get me wrong! But I have no idea
> where, when and by whom it was decided to build/use it. Granted, I have
> not watched the video from SOTMUS yet, maybe it is mentioned in it.
> Maybe I overread it in the slides (with their obnoxiously huge text,
> anti-readable on a monitor). Maybe it was suggested and planned a long
> time ago and I just forgot about it.
>
> The blog seems like the perfect place to be the main communication
> channel to the community for those in charge.
>
> Cheers, Hannes
>
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