looking at some facts, there are: - 13002 followers on twitter - 4311 likes on facebook page (to be compared at the >200 000 on the google maps page) - ? suscribers on talk@ => on the 1 millions osm user, I'm quite sure (but have no facts) that a lot of people have a facebook account but didn't know about the osm page !
My point of view is that social networks are perhaps not the best regarding privacy,.. but there are a great opportunity to communicate about OSM. I think we can surely do a better job to communicate around the osm ecosystem, even without social networks, by putting more informations in the main page and not only the map: new user will also know that osm i more than just a free (costless) map to display ... Sylvain 2013/1/9 colliar <[email protected]> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 09/01/13 15:18, Tobias Knerr wrote: > > On 08.01.2013 22:31, Rovastar wrote: > >> Nearly every site now has twitter, facebook, google plus, youtube > >> channel, etc links. We have these social media outlets lets tell people > >> about them. > > [...] > >> I cannot see any harm in this it would take up very little screen real > >> estate and I think look a more professional cohesive community. > > > > In my opinion, the most important reason to avoid implementing this is > not > > the screen space cost, but that it would be off-putting to those in our > > community who feel that centralized platforms like Facebook are > > incompatible with the spirit of an open, diverse and neutral web. > > > > Of course that is an ideological point of view, and many even in the OSM > > community no doubt do not share it. However, I would be wary to brush > aside > > ideology completely: We rely on very similar ideals when we compare > > ourselves to competitors. Look at Google Map Maker - just like Facebook, > it > > relies on users' contributions and offers certain free services in > return, > > but is ultimately limited in its potential to whatever fits the agenda of > > its owner. > > > > I don't mind if people use their favourite social networks to advocate > OSM. > > However, a front page placement is more than that. It would imply an > > endorsement of that service to an extent (until now, the only companies > > mentioned on the front page are ones which directly support the OSM > > community). It would also give special treatment to that small number of > > commercial services and neglect all the alternatives. > > > > Personally, I want to help OSM to overcome Google Map's dominance for > > pretty much the same reasons why I reject Facebook. So, please, do not > > advertise Facebook, Google Plus, or any similar networks on the OSM front > > page. > > +1 > > I might understand why osm should have its presence on these medias but > only > to advertise OSM and point out the huge disadvantages and problems of these > medias. > > I even dislike using them instead of an "open" or "own" platform cause you > are > already following their rules and strategy. > > If someone likes to make advertisement for free for these companies he/she > can > do so but OSM is not the right place for it and especially not the front > page. > > I would have quite some problems to explain this to folks I did start to > convince about OSM or at least showed an alternative. > > Somehow puzzled to have to discuss about that on this place. > > cu > colliar > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREIAAYFAlDtll0ACgkQalWTFLzqsCuwYwCdHfUQpUVz3Gt15FlCjcPXrhgV > LbwAoLVvWhx8fDwO9AwBaocohsfGyoPh > =Rl79 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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