<div dir="ltr">Hi I hope I will, <div>but I don't have any thought about local chapter and do we want to have a local not-for-profit org, or not.</div><div><br></div><div>It works when you want to get some data / hardware / money from gov or companies (not from ordinary people). </div><div>I'm here not for a long time but looks like gov more willing to work with OSM directly, as well as big GIS players.</div><div>So local chapter is nice but not a neccessary thing.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-28 9:19 GMT-03:00 Brian Bancroft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bancroft.bw@gmail.com" target="_blank">bancroft.bw@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);background-image:initial;line-height:initial"><div id="m_8771022404789146133response_container_BBPPID" style="outline:none;font-size:initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"" dir="auto"> <div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hi Matthew,</div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> It seems like an interesting idea. I've been travelling a bit lately, and I've found there's a lot of people out there who don't know about OSM where the platform is exactly what they need.</div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Would a robust OSMCanada spread the Gospel beyond the cities? Would it seek to incorporate local GIS imports on the map with legal support and task management?</div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Do we know what an incorporated OSMCanada would do that the informal association of really nice and diligent people can't do on their own?</div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I won't be making SoTMUS this year, but I'd love to hear more about what your aims are with this venture, and the problems you and others believe (or know) it would solve through incorporation and (possibly?) sweet government handouts. I'm guessing that these are the questions you want to crunch out while you're at the gathering of interesting people.</div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Best wishes and good luck with this endeavour,</div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Brian</div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="m_8771022404789146133BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div> <div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="width:100%;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="display:initial"></div> <div id="m_8771022404789146133blackberry_signature_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"> <div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div> </div></div><div id="m_8771022404789146133_original_msg_header_BBPPID" dir="auto"> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;display:table;outline:none"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in;font-family:Tahoma,"BB Alpha Sans","Slate Pro";font-size:10pt"> <div id="m_8771022404789146133from"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a></div><div id="m_8771022404789146133sent"><b>Sent:</b> September 28, 2017 7:06 AM</div><div id="m_8771022404789146133to"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:scruss@gmail.com" target="_blank">scruss@gmail.com</a></div><div id="m_8771022404789146133cc"><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a></div><div id="m_8771022404789146133subject"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Canada & State of the Map US: Oct 20-22</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(186,188,209);display:block;padding:initial;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div> <br> </div><div><div class="h5"><div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="background-image:initial;line-height:initial;outline:none"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'verdana',sans-serif;font-size:small">I hadn't heard of them and I'm in Ottawa but there again I'm not very sociable. I question why such a decision would be made out of the country?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'verdana',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'verdana',sans-serif;font-size:small">Does it matter if someone creates a not for profit Canadian corporation? I think it would have to change its name though there have been discussions recently about the use of OSM in names.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'verdana',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'verdana',sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 September 2017 at 21:59, Stewart C. Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scruss@gmail.com" target="_blank">scruss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2017-09-27 05:49 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Are any Canadian folks going to State of the Map US October 20-22<br>
> <a href="https://2017.stateofthemap.us/" target="_blank">https://2017.stateofthemap.us/</a><br>
<br>
Nope. Wish I could afford it.<br>
<br>
> During the conference, I would like to have a discussion about turning<br>
> the informal <a href="https://www.osmcanada.ca/" target="_blank">https://www.osmcanada.ca/</a> into a not-for-profit Canadian<br>
> corporation.<br>
<br>
I'd be opposed. Who are osmcanada? They don't represent me. Last I heard<br>
it was an informal group of mappers in Ottawa. What would the non-profit<br>
do? How would it justify its status? Would it be attempting to be an<br>
OSMF Chapter?<br>
<br>
Stewart<br>
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