Jim Brown writes: > Sure... They were passionate prior to that of course. Look at the > evolution of the kyiv map over time. It's also really telling that so many > have left Cloudmade and still are part of the community, these are > individual mappers your are talking about. People who give a damn about OSM,
I was a mapper before, during, and after my Cloudmade days. > They just started talking and asking about getting into OSMF, which they > needed help doing as you probably recall I think. It used to be much harder > to join. So we decided to help, and so they joined. You need to stir your whitewash, Jim. It's a little thin. I can't speak for anybody in England or Kyiv, but the community ambassadors were instructed to join the OSMF, and the cost was expensable. It was a great idea, but it came down from corporate, not up from the ranks. > I'm doubly surprised that you still think that was some evil plan. Nothing > particularly evil came from it as I recall. Agreed, nothing evil came of it. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
