Am 21.07.2013 20:18, schrieb Michal Migurski: > Supporting official venues for orderly change is what the board should > be doing, but is not. I would support the creation and use of a > proposal/vote/implementation process for the community, even if the > first proposal is just "be it resolved that Mapbox accepts > responsibility for the visual design of OSM.org".
I would find it very very difficult to subject superficial design changes to a popular vote, these are matters of personal taste and work flow and it is very unlikely that we could reach any kind of consensus within a reasonable time frame, wit this thread. What would be nice if we could get to a state where changing the visual appearance of the main site would not be such a heavy weight task (at least not for the devs) and could happen substantially more often than once in a decade. > The new icons and map controls are good and I'm getting accustomed to them, > but the process by which they made it onto the site worries me. Mostly, it's > because Saman opened his SotM-US talk with a "blow it all up" slide and > finished with gamification that I'm uneasy with how we're treating the visual > presentation of OSM.org. Gamification is a sad, sorry sideshow and we > shouldn't do it; it only became a meme because Zynga made a zillion dollars > and look how that turned out. Do we plan to follow through on gamifying the > OSM UI as Saman suggested in his talk? I don't know, and I don't want to have > to subscribe to Github pull requests to find out. Now high level goals and to a certain point functionality is something that, IMHO, is worth discussing with a large group, and we have ongoing discussions that cover exactly such territory. Besides what has been written here, there is a larger one on the German list about the potential gamification of OSM which shows that such a step is not simply a design question and definitely needs more community consensus if it should be seriously considered for implementation. Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
