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</head><body text="#000000">However my feelings are a chapter ought to
represent the active local mappers and I would have a concern if two or
three mappers made a decision then put it forward as an OSM chapter
point of view.<br>
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I think there should be some sort of minimum number of active mappers
whether that is a percentage of the local mappers or an absolute number
or what even the definition of an active mapper is just to give some
credibility to the chapter.<br>
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Could someone from the proposed organisation introduce themselves and
give some reassurance they have a thousand active mappers who have made
more than five hundred edits each?<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Yeah, the small area was also our initial comment
regarding the application. But based on our current Local Chapters
framework, the OSMF didn't specify a minimum area or size for the area
that will be covered by an organization so that in itself would not
disqualify Windsor Hackforge's application. Also, we discussed this
concern internally within the Board and we agreed that small size is not
an issue.<br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May
23, 2022 at 9:03 PM john whelan <<a
href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div
dir="auto">My thoughts are an Ontario County is a fairly small area for
an OSM chapter.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><br><div
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 23,
2022, 08:13 Eugene Alvin Villar <<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">seav80@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px
solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi
everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>I'm Eugene, one of the members of the
Board of the OSM
Foundation. I would just like to ask mappers and the local community
from Ontario, especially those based in the City of Windsor and Essex
County. The OSMF received an application from Windsor Hackforge (<a
href="https://hackf.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://hackf.org/</a>) to become an OSMF Local
Chapter. Please see the application documents here: <a
href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Windsor-Essex_Ontario_Canada"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Windsor-Essex_Ontario_Canada</a><span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>My
question is, would the local community feel comfortable with Windsor
Hackforge becoming a Local Chapter for the Windsor-Essex area? As stated
in the OSMF website, "Local Chapters are country-level or region-level
not-for-profit legal entities representing the area's OSM mappers and
OSM data when dealing with local government, business, and media." Does
Windsor Hackforge fit the bill?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Eugene
Alvin Villar</div><div>OSM Foundation Board<br></div></div>
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