On 29 Jun 2009, at 22:03, frank mohr wrote: > 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
Yes! >> 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) Yes we could do better at communications. I think it was supposed to do many things and it achieved many of them. As it grows and becomes more international it's multi-language communications will be more visible. I think a start would be to post our minutes of working groups and the board to the local-contacts list for dissemination to each country list. What do you think? >> 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. You certainly will! Best Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
