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Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 
Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. Ouch.
This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!
read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra
@amapanda @OpenStreetMapUS And people think that migrating to the next honeypot called Discord will fix the problem.
FOSSGIS @amapanda@en.osm.town@obrhoff what could possibly go wrong
@amapanda @obrhoff the nice thing about a transparent community and organisations is that you can go back and look at the reasoning no need to speculate. Defintely the OSM-US board at the time knew what it was getting in to (proprietary platform) but because there was the allure of network effects thought that it was worth while. So the question at hand is really solely are the network effects worth $10k or not.