Hi Donal, Jiri and all, Yes, it wasn't clear to me who was able to join or not the Google Groups. After playing around with the settings a bit more, now it seems we can offer a mailing list with a public record and allow more people to join the group directly:
* TM User Group: https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/#!forum/tasking-manager-users * TM Dev Group: https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/#!forum/tasking-manager-dev In addition we've published a quick overview of all options on joining the Tasking Manager development here: https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/blob/develop/docs/working-groups.md I hope I was able to clarify and improve on all points raised here. Have a great day, Felix On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:26 PM Donal Hunt <donal.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joining via email works for external users. Not clear if that is as a > result of changes by the HOT admins or that different ACLs are at play. > > > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 14:24, Donal Hunt <donal.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Note: Regarding the google group - HOT likely have the index of mailing >> list restricted (common for most organisations) so external users will not >> be able to subscribe directly via the web interface (I suspect email may >> result in the same deadend but I haven't validated the ACLs there). This is >> likely why email addresses were being gathered through a form - they need >> to be manually add to the group by the group owner / moderator. Purely a >> case of a design decision Google have made around their G Suite product. :/ >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 06:33, Felix Delattre <felix.delat...@hotosm.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Jiri, >>> >>> >>> On October 15, 2019 10:59:27 PM GMT+02:00, Jiri Vlasak < >>> jiri.huba...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >I feel >>> >sorry, but I am not interested in contributing to something closed, >>> >without >>> >public history. >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback! >>> >>> The Tasking Manager is free and open (source) and its development is >>> completely transparent, with a public history and actively seeking >>> collaboration through Github. >>> >>> Of course everybody is free to decide, whether to follow the invitation >>> to the TM groups or not! It is unfortunate that it doesn't fulfill your >>> criteria. I can understand your concerns and probably it is best for you to >>> participate through our Github repository, you seem to be well familiar >>> with and everything is kept in a public history. >>> >>> The groups are an additional offer for people who don't feel very >>> comfortable with Github and still want to give us input. It is an >>> opportunity for us to connect with the users of the TM. We also figured out >>> that sometimes it is good to talk in person, or over voice and video (we >>> also don't record these meetings). >>> >>> Best, >>> Felix >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from my phone; if there are typos I will still be quite annoyed at >>> myself. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >> -- *Felix Delattre* Technical Project Manager felix.delat...@hotosm.org -- *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <https://donate.hotosm.org/>
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