On 01/09/2013 01:37 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
I may be a grumpy old dinosaur but I don't see how diluting the Openstreetmap brand into the bland broth of proprietary centralized social services that plague the Internet nowadays will bring any value...
Simple question then: you go to osm.org and want to find out what's new in the project. How do you do that? Where do you find project announcements like the recent 1 million users news? None of the links from the home page are obvious enough. You can go to "Documentation" and there's the wiki where you can find news on the front page but that's hardly obvious. I don't mean to spread misinformation about Communication Working Group's job here so correct me if I'm wrong but OSM does have an official Facebook account[1] and official Twitter account which do have such announcements. It seems only natural to promote those channels from the main page and I will try to provide a patch for that. I don't like those "propietary centralized social services that plague Internet nowadays" either but I don't think OSM is the right bastion to fight this particular war... [1] https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap [2] https://twitter.com/openstreetmap Paweł _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
