Could you tell me more about what you mean by WordPress holding code for ransom? I tried searching but couldn't find much.
I'm not sure why you consider applying this model to be "grandstanding for attention or money", and (re: bus factor) I'm not sure why a team of developers couldn't work this way too.
As for cost...someone who wants to work - and continue working - for the community will obviously want to price their time in a manner satisfactory to the community. Could you give any examples of people charging exorbitant sums using this model?
PS: The "XMPP author" was not actually on XMPP. Also, that author was (as I mentioned) advocating for disallowing commercial use, which - forget about being "congruent" - goes against every definition of "open source" or freedom-respecting software...in contrast, I'm pretty sure the Free Software Definition doesn't say anything about your development or monetization model, as long as the four freedoms of users are respected.
Centralized architecture allows centralized control, notably over promotion and moderation. Facebook, Twitter/X, and other centralized platforms are absolutely responsible for what they promote and what they moderate. That someone could state otherwise staggers belief.
Decentralized architectures allow for more freedom of providers, content promotion and moderation policies, and apps.
To sum, the protocol and architecture changes everything.
Also, plenty of software freedom activists choose platforms based on protocol and architecture. Myself included, so you've now met at least one. :)
* Rendering and routing are faster (especially noticeable on older devices)
* Renders 3D buildings
* Far smpler UI, so it's hard for tech-illiterate users to get stuck
* Changes made with the Organic Maps editor become visible in your Organic Maps immediately. In OsmAnd, your edits vanish upon upload, and only appear once there is a map update - this can be as early as in one hour (using OsmAnd Live), or as late as one month.
* Organic Maps is less buggy.
Cons of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd -
* OsmAnd has far more features, like bus or share taxi routing, aerial imagery, 3D relief, analysis of GPS tracks, radius ruler, etc
* OsmAnd can render a lot more data like street surface, smoothness, access restrictions, lighting, features with FIXME tags, OSM notes, etc.
* Organic Maps only updates data once a month. OsmAnd updates data monthly too, but also has the OsmAnd Live feature to update data every hour.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Quicklisp is very much maintained and is the de-facto standard method for installing Common Lisp packages :) Although there are alternatives, too - https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#library-manager
While the article might be from 1995, the library is still maintained. There have been releases each year since 2019, including one last month.
https://ap5.com/
Hey, author here. I guess this is something I should update the post to address.
I guess I have always been in the "agonizing over every detail" stage, and remain so today (looks like we both have mapping parties tomorrow, because tomorrow's our 7th party :) ).
In the beginning, we were much more "lax". We waited for latecomers. During the survey, we moved in one big group. We focused on the social aspect of the meetup - often, the meet-and-greet phase would go on for too long, and there wouldn't be much time spent in actual mapping. After each party, I would be disappointed to note that most people did not make significant map changes during the survey.
In the 5th party, we decided to observe a stricter schedule, and tried a new approach - that of splitting up into teams, assigning an area to each team, surveying the assigned areas, then regrouping and reviewing the contributions. There was a radical difference. Everyone was contributing. A significant amount of data was gathered, and the social aspect of the meetup didn't seem to suffer as we feared it might.
Delhi is very populous, but somehow there are very few OSM contributors here. [1] It's been a real struggle to get people interested in OSM, and even more of a struggle to keep them contributing in the long term. Most participants don't continue mapping after the mapping party/workshop. I prefer to think there's something off in my approach rather than in the people, because that gives me the energy to keep trying new things.
It's great that you're organizing mapping parties in your region. I laud your initiative. Good luck for your parties!
[1] India's OSM community seems to mostly be concentrated in the southern states. For the Delhi OSM community, Bangalore remains our inspiration both for OSM coverage and for mapping party productivity.
I'm not sure why you consider applying this model to be "grandstanding for attention or money", and (re: bus factor) I'm not sure why a team of developers couldn't work this way too.
As for cost...someone who wants to work - and continue working - for the community will obviously want to price their time in a manner satisfactory to the community. Could you give any examples of people charging exorbitant sums using this model?
PS: The "XMPP author" was not actually on XMPP. Also, that author was (as I mentioned) advocating for disallowing commercial use, which - forget about being "congruent" - goes against every definition of "open source" or freedom-respecting software...in contrast, I'm pretty sure the Free Software Definition doesn't say anything about your development or monetization model, as long as the four freedoms of users are respected.