I actually really like the idea of State mailing lists, could work, worth a try.
Steve > On Oct 14, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > To me, one of the biggest things is about having all mappers act > reasonably toward each other. We have some people that I'd describe as > "lone wolf mappers". If they just add things, that's fine. But if they > are retagging motorways as trunk, or deleting railroads, or otherwise > being hostile, it's a huge turnoff for others to be part of the > community. In contrast, there are a lot of people that talk with the > other local mappers and it's far more friendly. > > So I have two concrete suggestions: > > - in each state, have a state mailinglist, limited to people who > actively map in the state, because they live there, or because they > drive there to work. Explicitly discourage non-locals from joining. > These lists would have more of a "people you might meet for a geobeer > session someday" flavor, rather than people you've never met and > won't. > > - have project leadership be much more aggressive about requiring people > that make edits other than local additions to engage with commenter > and be part of the community, or be banned. a few prolific editors > that annoy many others are a net minus to the community, and I think > that's pretty clear by now. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
