**Just a fyi that Dristie is a woman. She was at SotM last year and quite nice to chat with.
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:22 AM stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > As Michal/Mike suggested, I did reply to DrishT's diary page and DrishT > quickly replied. He was conciliatory, saying "the team has been engaging > in as many places as possible where we get reach outs with questions" and > he agrees that "community communications (about this topic / these topics) > are fragmented." Although, I haven't seem DrishT or anybody who directly > identifies themselves from Facebook engage the community (as narrow a slice > as it may be) here (on this "talk channel"), it does appear that > "engagement" is happening in other forums / channels. That seems positive > to me (and I'm somewhat skeptical of all of this and can be somewhat harsh > in my criticism when I find any). > > I'm ready to pay some significant attention to opinions of those like Rory > and Nuno who seem to indicate that Facebook publicly says one thing, but > their actions (and how they reply / respond and engage) say another. I am > disheartened to hear that some people feel like they haven't been heard / > aren't being replied to by Facebook (or their representatives), as that was > not my recent experience. > > As might have been predicted, this is a complex topic with many channels / > methods of communications, messages, past experiences, assumptions and > opinions flying around, it can be difficult to untangle them all, and it > can be easy to jump to conclusions and experience misunderstandings. Let > us be patient with one another, stick to facts and do our best to sort out > as many of the issues as we can. What appears to be happening here and now > is that better "cross-pollination" avenues of communication are being > explored and some "road is being paved" in that direction, that seems like > a good thing. > > Rory, if it helps, it appears that DrishT engages relatively quickly (as a > "somewhat representative member of the Facebook community working on this > AI project"). If you feel as if you are not heard (or "less than heard"), > I recently had a quick reply there ( > https://www.osm.org/user/DrishT/diary/368711 ); good luck. > > SteveA > > > On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:55 PM, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > > > > I think we'll just have to CC o...@fb.com and forward all replies to > this list. Facebook won't engage. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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