Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-04-29 Thread Allan Mustard
com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 28/04/2023 22:50, Allan Mustard wrote: Rather than criticize the CWG for using Google because certain people are restricted by their governments from using Google services, it would be more useful to suggest alternatives that migh

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-04-28 Thread Allan Mustard
Not to make too fine a point, but OSMF policy notwithstanding, the OSMF Board of Directors uses Google Mail, the OSMF participates in Google Summer of Code, and Google was a sponsor of SOTM 2022 in Florence.[1] As for foreign governments restricting access to Google assets, correct me if I am

Re: [OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

2023-01-20 Thread Allan Mustard
Obscurity won't stop terrorists, so we might as well map them. It will make it easier for law enforcement to find them, too. As an aside, the last couple of months I noticed somebody in Turkmenistan had added a number of "banks" and "bars" in Ashgabat, using MAPS.ME, with very strange,

[OSM-talk] List moderators now on forum as well

2022-12-21 Thread Allan Mustard
at community.openstreetmap.org. The same rules of etiquette [2] and process of moderation [3] will be applied. Best wishes and happy holidays to all! Allan Mustard [1] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Moderation_team_for_talk_and_osmf-talk_mailing_lists [2] https://wiki.openstreetma

[OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-11 Thread Allan Mustard
it?ts=5fd11436#heading=h.ccgtgjykcfgh> [2] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Etiquette <https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Etiquette> --- /Allan Mustard, Chairperson/ /Board of Directors/ /OpenStreetMap Foundation/ __

Re: [OSM-talk] our Q site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

2020-05-22 Thread Allan Mustard
the help site, is not hyperactive but not totally dead either and I > should note that the software stack it uses isn't particularly exotic > either. There is no reason to believe that we couldn't migrate to that > and get some support from the developer (for money obviously). It would &g

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 189, Issue 24

2020-05-20 Thread Allan Mustard
Simon, et al, if money is required from the OSMF, could not one of the working groups submit a funding request for migration to a new platform like StackExchange?  Microgrant is probably not appropriate for something like this.  Just my two cents' worth. apm On 5/20/2020 4:42 PM,