[OHM] Historic Digest, Vol 27, Issue 1

[Rob H Warren]

There have been regular unofficial hangouts every month so far with Wikimaps and we've had a FOSS intern working on rendering with time tags that needs to be installed on the machine. The irc chatroom is rather quiet at the moment through.

I'm wary of creating a formal organizational structure until complexity warrants it. We've done ok so far to ride other people's organizations to get things done so far. 

Could we setup a google hangout before the holidays hit to sync everyone up?

-rhw

On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:00 AM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:30:21 -0800
> From: Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>
> To: Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "historic at openstreetmap.org" <historic at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [OHM] Moving Historical Geodata to the Web & Questions
> 	about OHM Decision Making Process
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> 
> Chippy -
> 
> Your timing and delivery are fantastic - thanks for this update!
> 
> I don't think we have good answers to a lot of these questions (at least I
> don't!), some of which are related to us (the OHM collective! : ) ) having
> enough time individually or enough leadership or maybe even the right
> organizational structure. Who knows?
> 
> I'd love to hear what the list has to say about:
> - Setting up more regular meetings again
> - Setting up a non-profit structure focused solely on OHM objectives (I
> believe this will help with grants)
> - Tying in more closely with the Wiki folks
> - Defining more structured organizational roles - e.g. grant writing, IT
> ops, data recruitment, outreach, etc.
> 
> I ask these pesky organizational questions because I think a simple "send a
> message to the mailing list" type of instruction for outreach won't get us
> moving where we'd like to go, as quickly as we might like to go. Plus, it's
> not a reliable messaging service in that inquiries might go somewhat
> unanswered.
> 
> As for me, I've been a bit away due to personal / vocational reasons, but
> I'm ready and eager to get back on it.
> 
> To that end, I have meetings set up with David Rumsey and the NEH Office of
> Digital Humanities next week, with the interest of getting feedback on
> their thoughts about how to get things moving forward with a project like
> OHM.
> 
> I'll report back what I learn, but in the meantime, I'm curious what others
> think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff