Ian said: >Training and skills acquisition before undertaking complex tasks is a fairly commonplace activity in our society.
No but the difference between Stalinism and OSM is that we do not *oblige* people to follow a training process. >History is indeed full of these mistakes, these mistakes are the reasons we have schools, universities, drivers licences, and many other forms >of training and qualification. Then you are probable also in favor of a obligatory school in politics before being allowed to vote for your parliament? I am not sure you are aware of the principles of open data and of crowd collected data, or at least do not speak accordingly. The power of OSM is the number thing. Many users equal out the uneven data from beginners and vandals. But if you want to start an OSM college, I will not be the one to stop you ! Gert Gremmen ----------------------------------------------------- Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) P Before printing, think about the environment. Van: Ian Sergeant [mailto:iserg...@hih.com.au] Verzonden: Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:07 AM Aan: ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen CC: Talk@OSM Onderwerp: RE: [OSM-talk] Barriers of Entry "Gert Gremmen" <g.grem...@cetest.nl> wrote on 15/09/2011 03:51:11 PM: > I definitely do NOT want a *diploma* system > with less or more "approved" users.. Noooooooo > We don't want OSM to change into Brave New World, > 1984 or distinct between users on other characteristics > History is full of such mistakes. Training and skills acquisition before undertaking complex tasks is a fairly commonplace activity in our society. It really doesn't equate to a "Brave New World". History is indeed full of these mistakes, these mistakes are the reasons we have schools, universities, drivers licences, and many other forms of training and qualification. Not every task can be made simple, and our society is often structured such that people expect everything they are actually allowed to do to be harmless. If you lower the barrier to entry, and make something appear simple that isn't, you aren't doing anyone any favours. I'm sure we can ask someone to demonstate their ability to do a complex task before undertaking it, without too much danger of taking a step closer to the OSM equivalent of a Stalinist regime :-) Ian.
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