[Local-chapters] OpenStreetMap Philippines is planning to incorporate within this year

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Hello,

The Philippine OpenStreetMap community is planning to incorporate a
non-profit organization within this year (independent and not as part of any
existing organization). We already have selected the incorporators and are
now preparing the papers. We're not sure yet if we will pursue having a
local chapter agreement with OSMF. It all depends on how things work out at
the Local Chapters WG.

Speaking for myself, I'm glad that the old draft federated organization
agreement was thrown out since it has some problematic issues. Regarding the
new direction, the points mentioned in the Feb 12 minutes look good so far
and are more in line with how I personally see local chapers would be
related to OSMF. Basically, I quite like how the Wikimedia Foundation works
with their Wikimedia chapters. (I know that OSMF is a member org and WMF is
not, but putting aside the issue of local chapter members being members or
not of OSMF, the fact that OSMF is a member organization should be
irrelevant to the relationship between OSMF and the local chapters.)


Regards,
Eugene (osm:seav)
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