Hi, On 9/20/19 03:14, Herbert.Remi via Talk-au wrote: > I will post several concerns and information on several issues, but the > first is this platform itself.
You call this platform a "forum" which is ok in the abstract sense, but note that there is actually an Australia forum in addition to this Australia mailing list (https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=24). The forum provides a slightly different user experience but is used less. In other countries, people have set up Slack channels or Facebook groups or even more esoteric channels of communication, in addition of or as a replacement for mailing lists - browse https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index if you want to get an idea. There's no strict rule about where the OSM community should discuss their issues, however media that requires prior registration with a third-party entity - like Slack or Facebook - are sometimes frowned upon as they give control over who can participate to that third party and might require the participant to agree to wide-ranging exploitation of their personal data by a commercial entity. In Germany where I hail from, the forum and the mailing list are used by about the same number of (but largely different) people, and since the total number of contributors is large enough to guarantee lively discussion on both, that's totally fine. Germany also has mailing lists for individual states but they are used very little, and even state-specific issues would often be discussed on the nationwide list to ensure they get enough attention. Speaking very generally, OSM has achieved the success it has with a "just do it" attitude: Instead of saying, 15 years ago, "BEFORE we start, let's come up with a good data scheme and a feature catalogue", people said "let's just start and then fix things as we go along". My recommendation would be to just stat discussing whatever needs discussing on the talk-au mailing list and branch out as the need arises. If something is worth discussing then a non-ideal UI should not be the blocker, and if it is, then maybe the issue is not so important. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
