Hello Steve SteveC wrote: > Recently I had the luck and privilege to travel to some places in > Germany, Italy and other countries and meet OSMers. This was very > educational and I learnt a lot about how the different communities > work in these places. There are some subtle differences between > different countries and how OSM works in each one. Some have more > mapping parties. Some have meetings like Stammtisch. Some have PR. > Some organise on the mailing list. These are healthy differences.
those differences exist also inside countries > One thing I noticed a lot everywhere though was some misunderstandings > on what the foundation, the OSMF, are doing. It feels a little like > FUD[1]. i think the problem with OSMF is that the foundation is almost invisible for most mappers. (but that's how the foundation was initially planned, if i remember that right) > These misunderstandings related to the license, the servers, > the working groups, the software, the State of the Map conference and > other things. at some point i gave up to follow the discussion about the new license on the mailing list and wiki, but i still hope to get an update at the sotm. Frank ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de