On 09/01/2013 13:57, Greg Troxel wrote: > Personally, I find it puzzling that open data (and open source) projects > are willing to (as projects) use services with bad data policies and bad > privacy policies. While I wouldn't advocate that OSMF take a position > in the culture battle against such services, using them takes the > opposite position (that they are ok).
>From CWG's point of view, it's a pragmatic decision: Many people *are already using* those networks (for better or worse), so we may as well use them to get the OSM(F) message out there. We'll certainly never drop more open methods of communication in favour of social networks, but offering people a choice seems better than being dogmatic. > Perhaps a Diaspora pod? (I realize that currently, that probably > reaches few people.) As you say, the audience we'd reach that way would be minimal. It's also not clear how we could create an unambiguous "official" OSM Diaspora account and have it managed by several people, as is the case with the closed social networks. Any help or advice on this would of course be gratefully received. J. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
