Just a data point, if OSM is anything like Wikimedia: anywhere outside of the US and Western Europe, mapper conversations are likely already happening *primarily* (and possibly even *exclusively*) on Facebook. And in the US and Western Europe, mapper conversations among people who joined in the past 1-3 years are also likely already happening at least in large part on Facebook. The question is not whether you should start conversations there; the question is whether or not you're engaging with and benefiting from the conversations that are already happening.
Luis On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:30 AM Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.com> writes: > > > Relax, I am not saying “contributors must have a Facebook account”, > > rather I am saying “People with a Facebook account should be able to > > join a local interest mapping group”. > > > > This is about increasing the number of casual mappers interested in > > OSM. For example, Maptime is an organization that runs local meetups > > for this purpose. They currently seem to prefer Meeetup/Twitter, but > > I think a stronger presence on Facebook would do more to further their > > aims. > > Sure, but what tends to happen is that the local osm group the organizes > on $OBJECTIONABLE_PLATFORM and those that don't use it are marginalized. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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