On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]>wrote:
> Moved from another thread: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:51 AM, stevea <[email protected]> wrote: > >> OSM has a peer review process in place right now. It is called "watch >> the map, help it evolve, grow it as you can, if somebody does something >> odd/wrong/different, dialog with them." And then, take it from there. >> We're all grown ups here. >> > > There may be a few children mixed in. But mostly, coming to OSM, signing > up, and mapping can be a *very lonely experience.* > In most cases *nobody* greets you or *talks* to you unless you make a * > mistake*. > I think the work happening on Groups in the OSM.org website [0] would really help this. Once groups are available and started: - There are existing tools that highlight new mappers and the more experienced users could invite the new mappers to join groups that relate to their location or interests - We could automatically look at the first edit(s) a user makes and suggest (via an e-mail) that they join groups that relate to their changes Groups would make the community a lot smaller and inviting for brand new people but allow more experienced users to communicate with each other more efficiently, too. [0] https://github.com/osmlab/openstreetmap-website/commits/groups-sketch
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