On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Dan Dascalescu <[email protected]> wrote: > What do people think of moving this OSM help to the Stackexchange community. > I think that benefits would be tremendous, better marketing, possible new > users would see this great project and all other positive things that could > help boost this osm community. (Note that logging in with StackExchange's > OpenID URL works, but that won't bring any of these benefits).
Agreed. I think the negative comments below are somewhat symptomatic of how isolated the OSM community can be: rather than seeing an opportunity to recruit new members and connect with other communities, people are focusing on a pretty minor inconvenience: the need to possibly acquire a new username/password. Many (most?) people have a Google account these days - if anything, we should be moving in that direction, not trying to hold onto our own private auth universe. (I can't really speak for the overall value of moving to SE. For a long time I actually thought that help.osm site *was* on SE - the branding was so similar.) Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
