Replace tagging mailling list with Loomio?
Kotya Karapetyan
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I challenge you to prove that the tagging mailing list or the OSM forum have significant advantages over this tool in proposal discussions and initial voting.
No, you need to establish Loomeo is better than List or Forum. (OK, anyone can edit thread introduction ? DB)
David Bannon Fri 20 Mar 2015 11:29PM
and each post limited to 250 character ! Maybe a good thing in that it makes us express concisely but some matters will need more !
(Edited a message previously posted.) No, see post below.
David Bannon Fri 20 Mar 2015 11:37PM
dbannon@davos-LT:~$ cat | wc -c
I do see one trouble here....
487
Hmm, Kotya's post had 487 character. Looks like the 250 limit applies only while taking a position. That makes sense, unlimited while arguing a point but you need to summarise when taking a position.
Like that.
moltonel 3x Combo Fri 20 Mar 2015 11:53PM
Beyond wondering about being free of charge for OSM, I feel very uneasy about using an external service that cannot be intalled on OSM servers, cannot get the data out, etc.
moltonel 3x Combo Fri 20 Mar 2015 11:56PM
Also : no threading ? :( Tssss Kids these days...
David Bannon Fri 20 Mar 2015 11:59PM
moltonel, thats true. But maybe just something we need get over ? Outsourcing such services is pretty common now.
Of more concern IMHO is the life span of Loomio ? If it dies, or introduces fees next month, what do we do ?
Officially, its still in Beta.
jgpacker Sat 21 Mar 2015 12:21AM
moltonel, as far as I can see, loomio is open-source, so it can be hosted in OSM servers if people like it. I believe we could even ditch all these log-in options and implement an option to login with an OSM account. (though we would need to take a deeper look to comment about details)
jgpacker Sat 21 Mar 2015 12:24AM
I also dislike the lack of tree structure in the comments, but appreciate the "like" button, since theorically there are always dozens (or hundreds?) of users that never comment anyway, but would probably hit a "like" button.
Jan van Bekkum Sat 21 Mar 2015 6:05AM
One benefit of the mailing list (and most forums) is that entries are more WYSIWYG. Loomio has yet another editing standard to create bullet points, numbered lists etc. The same holds for the wiki by the way.
Jan van Bekkum Sat 21 Mar 2015 6:36AM
Interesting, if I change my position or its comment both the old and the new one remain visible.
David Bannon · Fri 20 Mar 2015 11:24PM
Hmm, I think its very decision based, not a lot of scope for the wandering treads we are used to. Probably means members need to show some discipline with either keeping to the topic or starting a new one. At present, we do not work like that !