Hey all -- how about going easier here and helping each other. Rather than condemnation over a relatively minor decision of which platform to use for a survey.
I think suggestion for another platform is easy enough to consider and remedy. OSMF has used limesurvey in the past, it can be looked at here. -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 10:56:22 AM EDT, Sören Reinecke <valin...@gmx.net> wrote: I am impressed that some of you always choose the path to complain about things going against their own world view rather to provide useful suggestion / realistic alternatives or even better getting involved in the implementation as developers do. Google or Microsoft are unfortunately the choice of many non-technical users because it is what they know, feel comfortable with and is most of the time easy to use. Only few OSS projects come near their level (the good ones like Linux). So please stop complaining about when someone does not share your ideologic attitude. And wanting to use OSS only is a ideology. In this case privacy is not even a concern. So please stop polluting email threads with unnecessary replies. For myself I can say that I don't like the giants too but I use what the most know and what is an established standard like POSIX or GDrive. I even administrate a Google Workspace subscription althought I do not like it because Google Workspace has way too limited administration options and a questionable permission system in GDrive. The argumentation of "restricted internet access" is a weak one in an online project like OpenStreetMap. Maybe I get a warning for saying this. But I got banned from tagging already because I brought up an important topic three times prior warning not to do that so nothing to loose here :) Sören Apr 28, 2023 16:27:41 Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com>: > On 28/04/2023 14:57, Marc_marc wrote: >> part of the active opendata community >> does not wish to ally a closeddata based enterprise > > It's actually worse than that. > > OpenStreetMap has mappers all around the world. Some of those places don't > have the virtually unrestricted Internet access that people in the west may > be accustomed to, and I wouldn't assume that a website of a major American > company (Google) is available in all those places. Previously the Board and > other OSMF working groups have taken care to ensure that everyone can > contribute to surveys like this. Of all people, I'd have expected the > Communication Working Group to be aware of this potential issue and to have > taken steps to ensure that it wasn't one. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > (writing in a personal capacity rather than as a member of the DWG) > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
