On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Pine,
Nice to run into you here! > Hod do you plan to develop readership for this site? Yelp seems to have a > commanding lead. To begin with, I think the most important question is whether this is something of importance to the free culture movement -- people like us who care about works being free to share and build upon, without control by any single organization, and with the technology being re-usable by others along with the content. I personally obviously think it's an important problem to work on -- user-created reviews are pervasive, important and typically proprietary, along with the sites that host them. Moreover, there are obvious conflicts of interest at play that can be mitigated through a more open approach without a commercial motive by the site operator. Finally, I hope that we can ultimately add useful metadata beyond just "is this a good product", e.g., about a company's environmental or labor record. If enough other people agree, then the answer to your question is not what _I_ plan to do :). If we don't care about this problem as a movement (which might legitimately be because other things are more important), then it won't get solved. With that preamble, I personally have a few thoughts on that, of course. For now I'm building out core functionality; once that's done, I want to look into meeting the needs of specialized communities that aren't currently being well-served by commercial players. lib.reviews already has the notion of teams: https://lib.reviews/teams If anyone reading this would like to start a team to review things that already have a matching OSM community, for example, let me know and we'll get that started. I also want to make reviews easily embeddable, Disqus style, so that folks who run small web shops and such can use our software with minimal effort. There's more, but I don't want to take up too much space on the OSM list with not obviously OSM-related aspects of the project, and invite folks who want to brainstorm further about it in general to subscribe to the lib.reviews list, here: http://www.freelists.org/list/lib.reviews Cheers, Erik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
