[Local-chapters] Chapter organisation type

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 02:25:10 GMT 2010


2010/2/20 Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com>:
> One way to make OSM chapters work in such places, is for them to align
> themselves and be part of an existing legal entity which encompasses values
> on a broader level.  (e.g. free, open source content, but not specific to
> mapping).  Or perhaps, there might be cases where an organisation can be
> both an OSM chapter and OSGEO chapter?

I forget which German organisation it was, but they wanted to become a
local chapter, so this doesn't just apply to non-western nations, but
existing similar groups that have the resources to have a dedicated
sub-entity...




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