Hey, Let's also not lose the fact that this thread started with 'Should we remove the +/- buttons' and has visited about 10 topics in 37 emails since then. Maybe it's time to start fresh with a focused thread.
Tom On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Michal Migurski <m...@teczno.com> wrote: > On Jul 21, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Pieren wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> > wrote: > >> On 20/07/2013 12:57, Paul Norman wrote: > > > >> Rails port pull requests?!?! wtf. > > : > >> I really think some developers are living in their own world. > > > > lol. They do ! > > If you missed the discussion because you don't watch the non-localized > > 35 mailing lists, 5 irc channels, 13 forums, 8 foundation working > > groups reports, all pull requests discussions in github/osm and the > > videos of the last SOTM, it's really your fault :-) > > > Supporting official venues for orderly change is what the board should be > doing, but is not. I would support the creation and use of a > proposal/vote/implementation process for the community, even if the first > proposal is just "be it resolved that Mapbox accepts responsibility for the > visual design of OSM.org". > > The new icons and map controls are good and I'm getting accustomed to > them, but the process by which they made it onto the site worries me. > Mostly, it's because Saman opened his SotM-US talk with a "blow it all up" > slide and finished with gamification that I'm uneasy with how we're > treating the visual presentation of OSM.org. Gamification is a sad, sorry > sideshow and we shouldn't do it; it only became a meme because Zynga made a > zillion dollars and look how that turned out. Do we plan to follow through > on gamifying the OSM UI as Saman suggested in his talk? I don't know, and I > don't want to have to subscribe to Github pull requests to find out. > > Let's not lose sight of the fact that OSM.org has mapped the world in a > decade. > > -mike. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: > sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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