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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>Also need to share my views, <br>
</p>
<p>I am living in Tahiti (French polynesia) and promote OSM here
with 2 caps, as a volunteer and as a professionnal in GIS.</p>
<p>As Ed and Greg mentionned we are veryvery few in the islands. In
Tahiti, main island (180 000 habitant, part of French polynesia =
280 000hab), I am sadly the only one actively pushing for OSM.
Some people are opensource and opendata sensitive, we organize
activities from time to time together, for inclusion and
sensitization. We might never have an OSM community, but rather an
open source/opendata community. I still am pretty happy that some
institutions involve into OSM following sensitization. So, we are
few but manage to do things. I am not talking about mass edits,
not my objective :)<br>
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<p>Back to the point : it would not make any sense for French
polynesia to be a local chapter (to answer Christopher question) :
because we will never be enough, well enough structured, or maybe
in 10 years of time. Being part of a regional local chapter would
also allow our regional representative to represent all of us af
the OSMf (even if, we are juste one voice in Tahiti). At Tahiti
scale, Oceania local chapter, could support development of local
knowledge, by supporting events organisation, and facilitate
regional links/relations. I prefer something inclusive where
Tahiti could have a voice (as it would be at Oceanian scale), than
exclusive if our islands would not be represented (if local
chapter would only be NZ+Australia). We had a discussion about
official mission of this local chapter and it was clear that this
chapter would have a role of facilitation and promotion, if and
only if local communities ask for it, but not coordination. I
don't see yet any issue with it. <br>
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<p>Hope my point makes sense to you. I like also the proposal of
Frederik to add an option for us to build our local chapter
(Tahiti scale), the day we are ready. <br>
</p>
<p>Best regards</p>
<p>Violaine</p>
<p>PS: excuse my english<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 11/08/2020 à 22:17, Andrew Harvey a
écrit :<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 20:45, Joost Schouppe [OSMF
secretary] <<a href="mailto:secretary@osmfoundation.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">secretary@osmfoundation.org</a>>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>You may be aware that OsGeo Oceania has applied to
become an official Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap
Foundation. As part of the application process, we would
like to ask you, the OSMF membership, how you feel about
this. Do you support this application? Do you have any
questions, comments or concerns?</div>
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<div>I'm supportive of the application, but I think that goes
without saying as I'm one of the people behind the push for
the application to become a LC.</div>
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<div>I'm in agreement with Edoardo and Greg's comments here.</div>
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<div>From the OSGeo Oceania side I don't see anything
preventing future single country organisations emerging, but
right now there are not enough volunteers and resources to
start a local chapter for each country, by having a single
organisation covering the whole region our precious
resources can be pooled for the benefit of everyone more
efficiently.</div>
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<div>> I also have my doubts on the significance
OpenStreetMap plays in the</div>
OSGeo Oceania activities in general and if the position of the
OSM<br>
community within the organization is strong enough for it to
fulfill<br>
the role of a local chapter. But i have not looked at this
deeply<br>
enough to form a clear opinion.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">As Edoardo mentioned we are forming
some kind of OSM working group within OSGeo Oceania which will
have a more narrow focus, but even without that OSGeo
Oceania's Terms of Reference say "Its purpose is to foster the
growth of the geospatial open source & open data community
in the Oceania region, including the oversight and stewardship
of a FOSS4G & SotM Conference series", open data community
covers OpenStreetMap.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">For our last two conferences we had a
healthy amount of participants, sponsors and program content
which mostly fell in the OSM "camp", certainly not
insignificant.</div>
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