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## Manfred Reiter - mobile - please excuse typos and brevity ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Von: "Madalina Ionescu" <[email protected]> Datum: 24.06.2015 19:33 Betreff: reply to Willie regarding weeklyosm translation An: <[email protected]> Cc: "Manfred A. Reiter" <[email protected]> > Hi Willie, everyone, > > I am Madalina, I am from Romania and I am a member of weeklyosm team and I apologize for writing in English. > > I understand by all means the need and the importance of an official point of view of the OSMF and the CWG. At the same time, I respect Willie' s opinion that it might be better to translate the official blog. What puzzeles me is the explanation: how is this official blog the only link to OSM news? > > The use of the word only troubles me a lot, moreover taking in consideration that this is the statement of a member of CWD and an expert in communication. I thought of OSM as a community where individual opinions are respected and encouraged, where a diversity of sources of information is desired, no master plan to follow, no unique voice to listen to. > > WeeklyOSM is a voice and a source of news for the OSM world, not an official one, not the best of them. Everyone is free to read it, to contribute to it, or not. It was started as a translation of the excellent (in my opinion) Wochennotiz in English, Spanish, Turkish and Romanian and since then members of others national communities joined, Japanese, French, Czech, Indonesian. > > P.S: By your definition, this : User Wille talks in his user diary about an OSM meetup in BrasÃlia. (Google Translator) does not qualifys as OSM news; we thought > differently, see here: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/ <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/date/2015/02/page/2>archives <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/date/2015/02/page/2>/date/2015/02/page/2 <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/date/2015/02/page/2> and that is the beauty of it :) > Best regards, > Madalina
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