On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote: > OSM in 2009 > Took so little time > For the lists to get so pissed > But mercury is in retrogrades > (and I don't believe in that, ok, anyways) > Nothing a beer among comrades > Wouldn't fix, mighty quick > So welcome to all mappers and T B Lee > A new year of maps, open and free! > -Mikel > (I'm not saying that the rest of this thread should be poems, but I think it > would help)
Mikel - you're the light at the end of our tunnel ;-) > ________________________________ > From: brendan barrett <[email protected]> > To: Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:37:35 PM > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and Linked Data, and W3C, etc ... > > Perhaps my point hasn't gotten through properly. My intention is > merely to convey that this kind of language "we're just a bunch of > clueless fuckwits that are intent on buggering up > everything", does not help someone understand this "API 0.6 has been > available for testing and reviewing for a while now. If there is > somebody willing and able to review it they will have done so by now". > As a newbie to the project, this kind of language deters any kind of > participation in this forum due to fear of retribution. How do you > build credibility for a project when your public communications are > degrading? Rather not reply at all. > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> brendan barrett wrote: >>> >>> I'm not going to speculate on the fruits of such an exercise. My point >>> is simply that if someone is willing to do so, then why stop them or >>> belittle their effort. >> >> True, and API 0.6 has been available for testing and reviewing for a while >> now. If there is somebody willing and able to review it they will have >> done >> so by now, and we won't stop them or belittle their effort! >> >> This is different from asking around whether somebody perhaps knows >> somebody >> who might be a database genius and who might perhaps be willing to lend us >> his ears so that we can explain to him what OSM is about, what we've done >> in >> the past, what we'll do with 0.6, and why and where we'd value his >> opinion. >> We might go to such lengths if we were in really deep shit and didn't know >> how to get out without external help, but I don't see a reason for that >> right now. >> >> I'm also a bit offended by the fact that people seem to think that anyone >> who has written a few RfCs must surely know people who can easily usher >> OSM >> into a new era by applying their vastly superior knowledge - and that's in >> spite of me not even having designed anything close to the heart of OSM. >> >> Finally, I think that Tim has a right to be a regular mapper like anyone >> else on this list, picking his area of interest and doing a little work >> there, without everyone challenging him to get involved more and to send >> his >> friends and organisations to help. Has it occurred to anybody that he >> might >> just be in it for a bit of recreation like so many of us? >> >> Bye >> Frederik >> >> -- >> Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Nick Black -------------------------------- http://www.blacksworld.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
