A couple of days ago I wanted to register with some site... ah, yes, it was Hutch. I was okay about setting up a username and password, but they offered me the ability to authenticate via Facebook - three clicks and I was done. Very, very easy and didn't trigger my personal (admittedly quite high) privacy issue paranoia, since I got to make decisions about the areas of my profile to which I was granting Hutch access.
Given that what the OSM wants (if I've understood this correctly) is: 1. That a new user walks through some process that shows them the terms and conditions so that they can make an informed decision to accept, 2. That the OSM has a clear an unambiguous way to identify and contact that user in the event of vandalism (or for other important, non-spam needs), ...then might FB and/or Twitter authentication be an option (and note that I say "option", not The One True Way to register)? Just a thought :) b On 7 August 2010 08:46, Nick Black <nickbla...@gmail.com> wrote: > So let's bring this back to people who want to create tools to make it > easier for everyone to participate in OSM. How can we get past the problems > and make it easy for people to map? > > Auth and new mappers workshop ++ > > Nick > > On 7 Aug 2010, at 01:03, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:43 AM, John Smith < <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> > deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 7 August 2010 08:56, Frederik Ramm < <frede...@remote.org> >> frede...@remote.org> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > John Smith wrote: >> >> >> >> Even wikipedia doesn't take that attitude, they're currently being >> >> threatened by the FBI over a SVG image. >> > >> > Nothing to do with copyright, and thus completely irrelevant in this >> > discussion. >> >> Wikimedia is claiming fair use, sounds like a copyright argument to me. >> > > Nope. FBI's problem with Wikipedia has nothing to do with copyright. The > work in question, the FBI seal, is the work of the U.S. Federal Government > which would make it public domain and thus there is no copyright in the > first place. FBI's problem is that people might make fake FBI badges and > stuff like that because Wikipedia provides a high-quality SVG image of the > seal. > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd
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