On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Randy <[email protected]> wrote: > So, Steve, is your point a complaint or an offer to help (or both)? And if > a complaint, do you have a suggestion for improvement?
An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it won't be for the next 6 weeks. >Do you want to see > development opportunities advertised in talk more, or something else? Yes, and in plenty of other ways, too. > My personal thought: Maybe we need an announce list, which is nothing more > than a list for folks to announce various opportunities, or new (or old) > products periodically, with a general agreement (or moderation) that the > only allowed replies are requests for more information or their responses. Sure, but don't restrict relevant announcements to such a list. Just like I thought it was a shame when all the Haiti traffic left the main OSM talk list, it's a shame to segregate topics too strictly - the occasional relevant, targeted appeal for development help would be worth sharing with the broader OSM community. > It could include announcements for mapping party (or not?), development > opportunities, product releases or revisions, a new wiki page for ideas > for a simple editor, etc. With a once a month repeat annoucement being > allowed, so new folks wouldn't have to go to the archives to catch up. > Keeping the chatter to a minimun would make it easier to quickly scan the > list, rather than wading through a lot of stuff on talk. Where dialog is > needed the topic could move to talk, or a dev list, or one-to-one. People don't really go looking for things they're not aware of. Better to occasionally, discreetly put it in their faces. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
