<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Jorieke and everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a summary of the OSM Africa meeting we had last week which was mainly on organizing a SoTM Africa conference next year.</div><div><ul><li>The SoTM Africa Working Group will be meeting once every week starting on Monday 17th October, 2016 (everyone here is invited)<br></li><li>There will be a general committee and a local committee that will be set up after selecting the venue<br></li><li>Leading to the meeting next week, more information will be gathtered on what is required to organize a SoTM by reaching out to OSMF and other communities who have organised a SoTM before<br></li><li>We are to check out the events calender for 2017 to select an appropriate date<br></li><li>A call for venue will be made afterwards<br></li><li>More people should be called upon to join the SoTM Working group<br></li><li>A wiki page was created for documenting the planning process here<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"> <font size="1"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Africa_2017" style="text-decoration:none">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Africa_2017</a></span><br></font></font></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>This is an open call for anyone would like to join the SoTM Africa Working Group, if interested please send me a message so I can add you to the list.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Geoffrey</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Jorieke Vyncke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com" target="_blank">jorieke.vyncke@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey Geoffrey, <div><br></div><div>How did the meeting go? Sorry I could not be there!</div><div>But pretty interested in what you discussed, did somebody take notes?</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings, Jorieke</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2016-10-08 20:03 GMT+02:00 Geoffrey Kateregga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kateregga1@gmail.com" target="_blank">kateregga1@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>HI everyone, Reminder about our OSM Africa Meeting </div><div><br></div><div>Our chat is on:<br></div><div>Friday, October 8th, 2016 19:00 hrs GMT<br></div><div>Duration: 1 hour<br></div><div><br></div><div>How to join:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Mumble</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Agenda:</div><div>1. Status of OSM Africa and summary of BoF Brussel</div><div>2. Discuss roles of the SoTM Africa organising committee </div><div>3. Call for SotM Africa organizing committee participants</div><div>4. Schedule/timeline of things to do before July 2017</div><div>5. Meeting schedule going forward</div><div>6. AOB and Closure</div><div>Thanks</div></div><div class="m_-6944288064181316913HOEnZb"><div class="m_-6944288064181316913h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Geoffrey Kateregga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kateregga1@gmail.com" target="_blank">kateregga1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>You are invited to participate in the OpenStreetMap Africa meeting this Saturday 8th October 2016 at 1900 hrs GMT to discuss organising a State of the Map Africa conference next year and paving a way forward for OpenStreetMap Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>The agenda for the meeting can be found on the OSM Africa Trello board [1]. Please add any other items you would like to see covered in the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting will happen on Mumble[2] so please set-up ahead of time and if you’re new to Mumble it’s best to show up a bit early so if you do have problems someone can help.</div><div><br></div><div>We also have a Whatsapp group and if you would like to be added, please send your phone number to <a href="mailto:kateregga1@gmail.com" target="_blank">kateregga1@gmail.com</a> or join us on Slack[3]</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Geoffrey</div><div><i>OpenStreetMap Uganda</i></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://trello.com/b/hajqlljG/osm-africa" target="_blank">https://trello.com/b/hajqlljG/<wbr>osm-africa</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Mumble</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://osmafrica.slack.com/" target="_blank">https://osmafrica.slack.com/</a></div><div><br></div></div>
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