[OSM-talk] osmf-talk list

[Simon Poole]

Am 29.09.2014 15:50, schrieb Jason Ward:
> Thanks for the link Richard (I should become a member and jump on over
> there!),
> 
Hi Jason, welcome to the list :-).
> Very casual mapper here though so my membership will have to wait.  I
> spent about an hour following a couple of those threads though.
> 
> For a start, and because I don't see threads like this unless I'm linked
> to them, is there any reason why forums are not used? 

There is a really wide range of opinions on using forums vs. mailing
lists, in the end it simply boils down to a matter of taste. The current
OSM forum server is operated by a long time community member, not by the
core admin group, which makes is slightly less "official", but there are
numerous OSM communities that prefer using forums over the lists, there
are some that are split and there are some that just use the mailing lists.

> 
> I'm also interested in the 'tension' I feel between the Not-For-Profit
> situation OSM is "in" and Corporate interests (Ref: [Osmf-talk] Death
> and evolution) and how there is a desire to form a Funding WG
> (Ref: [Osmf-talk] Funding WG).


It is not quite so simple (nothing in OSM tends to be), and the
fault-line is likely not between for-profit - non-profit, but more big
OSMF vs. small OSMF. Or put differently between a top-down, strong
central control structure and a bottom-up de-centralised, federated
structure. As all black and white statements it ignores all the grey
that exists in between.

Simon

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