Richard Weait wrote: >On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski ><[email protected]> wrote: >>On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Frederik Ramm >><[email protected]> wrote: > >>>Stop. - Are you saying that osm-professional is intended as a copy of >>>osm-talk just moderated? >> >>I see osm-professional as mainly focusing on a new audience of people >>who currently aren't subscribed to any OSM list, with a focus on >>people using osm in a professional context. >> >>If it's similar to any other list, it'd probably be "newbies"- but >>newbies is really about getting involved in the project in the sense >>of contributing to the project, where I see osm-professional as about >>people who may not want to be individual contributors but still have a >>connection to OSM. > >Perhaps "Newbies" is the answer. >Traffic is lower. >We try to restrain ourselves from diving into perpetual tagging, etc., >discussions. >"Newbies" already has the expectation that questions should be >answered without a dose of "that's a stupid question." >To succeed "Newbies" needs a number of folks willing to answer >questions for folks not already steeped in the culture of OSM. And a >number of new folks to ask questions. > >I think the expectation of acceptable behaviour is in place at >Newbies. I think the demographics are so similar that no revision of >mandates is required. The only thing missing is a way to make "new >OSM pros" think that they aren't being treated like "newbies", because >obviously, the are professionals. > >ln -s newbies osm-professional # enh? See what I did there?
I sure don't understand what all the fuss is about. If there was an NTTP group where I didn't agree with the management process, I just wouldn't join it. Is the fuss because it has "openstreetmap" in its name? Maybe it should just be gmane.comp.gis.professionals_interested_in_mapping. Surely no one is so dictatorial about anarchy that they couldn't stomach that! -- Randy _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
