Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Mikel Maron
Ævar Agreed, but you personally control the openstreetmap twitter account don't you? If you think waze's twitter account is nice (what it mostly does is answer a bunch of user questions, which implies a dedicated support team sitting behind it). Then perhaps you should give other people

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:38, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: I think the most effective way to push forward what osm.org could be is by demonstrating ideas with code. Isn't the code base now on github? Start forking, trying out ideas ... things that work are going to be more

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/05/10 09:39, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:38, Mikel Maronmikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: I think the most effective way to push forward what osm.org could be is by demonstrating ideas with code. Isn't the code base now on github? Start forking, trying out ideas

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:49, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 18/05/10 09:39, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Here's a mockup:     http://v.nix.is/~avar/insert-stuff-here.png The contents of the white area would be determined by the aforementioned user editable  reviewed page. The

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/05/10 10:08, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:49, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: Before you all get too carried away with this extra tab idea of Ævar's I would just like to point out what I've said before about adding more tabs, namely that we already have

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: Worse than that, whatever you do the tabs will always overflow if you have a particularly verbose language and/or narrow window. They are, basically, just asking for trouble unless you limit yourself to only having a very small number of them. Or unless you get a

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:16, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 18/05/10 10:08, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: It would solve our existing overflow problems, and give us space for small notices at the top like Would you like to view osm.org in $language, or head over to the wiki for Haiti

[OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Seventy 7
Ævar wrote: You'll probably like this one better, it takes the concept of insert neat stuff here even further, just add imagination: http://v.nix.is/~avar/insert-neater-stuff-here.png Lol! Reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon The Technology Demo. Dilbert, the nerdy engineer, is presenting

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Before you all get too carried away with this extra tab idea of Ævar's I would just like to point out what I've said before about adding more tabs, namely that we already have too many and that any attempt add more without

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/05/10 21:07, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: Before you all get too carried away with this extra tab idea of Ævar's I would just like to point out what I've said before about adding more tabs, namely that we already have too many and

Re: [OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-18 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Easy fix: Remove the GPS Traces and User Diaries tabs and add links to these near Help  Wiki in the left column. Yes, because we never get any complaints about things in the left column being pushed too far down the page so

[OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

2010-05-17 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 21:43, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Some selective replying... Have a look at waze's twitter feed. *That* is the kind of community building we need to be doing now. Agreed, but you personally control the openstreetmap twitter account don't you? If you think waze's