Michal (Mike? I have a brother with the same Polish spelling, and he goes by both names, too!), are you answering as a representative of Facebook or as a contributor to OSM, or both? I believe I know you to be a (well respected, august) contributor to OSM, but if you are saying that you might represent Facebook in this talk channel on this topic / these topics, I do not understand your relationship with Facebook, if any, and appreciate any clarity along those lines you might offer. (You mention being "employees of a large company" and I get that Facebook is exactly that, are you an employee of Facebook?) Or, perhaps you are simply replying to MY reply that "there is a Slack channel about this, discussion is happening there..." and that it would be difficult to have a discussion a la Slack here on talk. If the latter is the case, I agree it would be "messier" (as it is single-threaded and slower / serial instead of parallelized like a Slack channel). Yet, that addresses exactly my point: that a single(?) (Facebook) representative with a well-focused reply / message to address this / these topic(s) can work. More slowly and cumbersome, yes (it is a cumbersome channel, I agree, yet we somehow make it work about as well as can be expected to work). "Complicated" shouldn't scare Facebook away, nor be a reason or excuse to not engage in dialog. That said, I myself am only one person in this endeavor to better dialog, not a point person or spokesperson, by any means!
A major thrust behind my invitation was about distinctly avoiding communication methodologies that are proprietary and require agreement with a contract of adhesion (precisely as Facebook and Slack offer and require) and using comm tech that is much, much more open (like talk here) — truer to the spirit of OSM. Thanks for your reply, thanks in advance for any clarification you might further add, SteveA > On Aug 5, 2019, at 8:40 PM, Michal Migurski <m...@teczno.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I appreciate the invitation, but this is a complicated list for employees of > a large company to have a discussion! > > Instead, try posting on the diary post where Drishtie announced the project > and FB staff are actively responding: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DrishT/diary/368711 > > The project is also on Github with open issues, if you’ve got something to > report: https://github.com/facebookincubator/RapiD/issues > > -mike. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
