This is an extremely thoughtful and constructive post. Thanks to Serge for making it. I looked closely at getting deeply involved with OSM a few years back. An

This is an extremely thoughtful and constructive post. Thanks to Serge for making it. I looked closely at getting deeply involved with OSM a few years back. And bounced off hard because the community is infested with assholes. There's a lot of very rude people who are active on the mailing lists that set the culture. It made me uninterested in trying to work through those cultural problems to improve the technical project. I'm not alone in this feeling.