Want a new feature or bug fixed in any OSM tool? Learn java/javascript/actionscript/rails/whatever’s popular this moment or suck it up. It’s a do-ocracy: people don’t matter, pull requests do.

Someone may help if you are obviously not a programmer, but god forbid you write a single script — you’re done, from now on <see above>.

(a summary of my sotm talk, proved again this week)