Yes, I'm with Jaakko on the benefit of making things more social. I friend people on OpenStreetMap when I happen across their accounts. Not everyone of course:). Meaning if I see someone's edits who was in one of my workshops (meaning they continued editing) I friend them. I think it lets people know there are other people around and there is a community behind the map.
A lot of people don't get mailing lists now days. For example more information goes back and forth in Facebook about mapping in Indonesia than the osm-id list. -Kate On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Jaakko Helleranta.com <[email protected]> wrote: > "Maybe we should allow teenage users to shoot nude pictures of themselves, > upload, and share with friends." > > Or maybe, just maybe, some of the blessed developers who know Rails well > enough could help make connecting with other mappers > easier/smoother/even_delightful > > So, +1 for Martijn's idea(s). > > Cheers from Haiti (where challenges in connecting with other mappers in a way > that works is one major obstacle in creating a vibrant mapping community), > -Jaakko > > ------Original Message------ > From: Frederik Ramm > To: Talk@OSM > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Friends > Sent: Nov 30, 2011 15:18 > > Hi, > > On 11/30/2011 09:06 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> * Whether the friendee is notified about being friended by another user. > > Yes, because I have had complaints from people being "friended" by a > known obnoxious community member whom nobody wanted to be friends with ;) > >> And most importantly: >> * How could the OSM friend concept be made more meaningful? > > Not every non-meaningful feature must be made more meaningful. Burying > such a feature is also an option ;) > >> * Integrate with other social networks (find OSM friends through >> Twitter / Facebook / ...) >> * Being able to group-send messages to your friends. >> * Having friend groups >> I realize that these are some pretty big ideas > > Personally I would consider none of them useful but maybe that's because > I just don't "get" social. Maybe we should allow teenage users to shoot > nude pictures of themselves, upload, and share with friends. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel > -- > Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
