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Maning, Eugene, Nick,<br><br>
I am cc'ing Nick Black for his info. He is my fellow OSMF board member
who is working on the structure and procedure for OSMF local chapters. It
certainly would be great to see a Philippines chapter forming; a very
vibrant community is developing and I think you guys are gaining a lot of
experience in getting local government and other data contributions that
we'd all like to know about.<br><br>
Mike<br><br>
At 01:33 PM 27/01/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The OSMF has a plan on having
local chapters, somewhat similar in style to the Wikimedia Foundation's
chapters. That's the only way we can represent OSM in a legal and
official sense.<br><br>
But basing on the currently ongoing plans of setting up a Wikimedia
Philippines chapter since 2007, I doubt that we can create an
OpenStreetMap Philippines organization anytime soon after the OSMF has
approved the policies for setting up local chapters.<br><br>
Then again, there are plenty of people in this mailing list that have
experience setting up SEC-registered companies. In Wikipedia, we are all
just a bunch of academically-inclined people. :-)<br><br>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM, maning sambale
<<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">
emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<dd>Hi,<br><br>
<dd>I am receiving emails lately on how to support OSM Philippines.
The<br>
<dd>natural response I give is: join OSM, collect data, edit the
database,<br>
<dd>tell your friends about OSM Philippines. Do we need more
support<br>
<dd>other than what I mentioned? Do we need event sponsors,
funds, free<br>
<dd>beer?<br><br>
<dd>On another side of the coin, I also approach some orgs
(particularly<br>
<dd>LGUs) to support or provide data for OSM Philippines. The
usual<br>
<dd>response is: "we want to know more about your organization so we
can<br>
<dd>discuss it". Well, we don't have any formal org.
What "legal" basis<br>
<dd>can we represent OSM Phil to these organizations? Is anybody a
member<br>
<dd>of the OSM foundation? Perhaps we can capitalize on such
affiliation.<br><br>
<dd>Any ideas? Or we just keep on mapping (me thinks we
should).<br><br>
<dd>--<br>
<dd>cheers,<br>
<dd>maning<br>
<dd>------------------------------------------------------<br>
<dd>"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all"
-N.Branden<br>
<dd>wiki:
<a href="http://esambale.wikispaces.com/">
http://esambale.wikispaces.com/</a><br>
<dd>blog:
<a href="http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/">
http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/</a><br>
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