[OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

[Andrew Hain]

Jo Walsh <metazool <at> fastmail.net> writes:

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> Attack is the best form of defence?
> Sorry, I don't have much sense of the OSM community as it currently
exists, and I just re-joined the list, where it seems like others leap in
with confrontational tone. It has been some years since I was actively
involved in OSM and i'm so glad that it's hitting the public radar in the
way that my Twitter feed seems to suggest.
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> I don't mean to aggress or to show off, if that's how my suddenly
reappearing presence has come off; this is a genuine question for all of
those contributing suggestions to the list; water it up or down according to
extent of commitment. I just accidentally got a bit overcommitted to OSM.

Although lots of people have managed to do lots of constructive work the
past few months have been the most argumentative since the Australian clique
were at their worst as a cascade of long-running dissatisfactions have come
to the boil like dominoes. It’s time for everyone (including myself) to take
a deep breath, but we can’t just let frustrations build up again and we
really need to work on a stronger culture of harmony (we can have strong and
differing opinions of course) and not just a surface appearance; lurkers on
our communication channels aren’t the real audience.

--
Andrew