[Talk-ca] MSF Toronto Missing Maps Event

2018-09-17 Thread Steve Singer
I'm forwarding this on. I attended their event last month. It was a great event and they get a lot of new mappers adding data. I just wanted to send you a quick message to let you know that we are hosting our next public Missing Maps mapathon on Wednesday, September 26th at the

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

2018-09-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Thank you for those clarifications, John. I speak for myself, but I do feel confident that others are learning from what you say and that OSM and all involved can and shall do better. Honestly, I look forward to "better processes" which "make more open data available to OSM" (a worthy goal,

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

2018-09-17 Thread john whelan
Just a comment Alessandro is not a dedicated project manager but rather the person that the project manager reports to. Currently in addition to his normal job he is also acting in the position above his so he really is doing two jobs at once. Bjenk was the project manager who pulled the project

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

2018-09-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
I (rather fully, and without Alessandro's accusatory "troll-like behaviours," wow) addressed Alessandro in an off-list email reply, though I quickly received an "out of the office until September 21" bounce-back. We shall see. One thing I must say here I found unfortunate in Alessandro's post

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

2018-09-17 Thread Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN)
Hi Steve, If you read the email, you would see I did mention OSM (and it was sent to several people active with OSM in Canada, who rightly started a discussion on talk-ca). Specifically about your question: I do not think it is up to me to tell what should be the role of the OSM communities