[Local-chapters] Fwd: Request to approve Local Chapter Agreement at Board Meeting

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Hello,

I have issues with this clause:

3.3 The Federated Organisation OpenStreetMap members will automatically
> become members, with all the associated rights and obligations, including
> specifically voting rights, of any ordinary Foundation member.
>

Does this mean that the Local Chapter will have to pay membership dues per
member to the OSM-F (even if the fee is adjusted via PPP)? Wouldn't this
complicate financial records especially given the disparate financial
systems of different countries?

Also this one:

4.2 the Federated Organisation will cede control of all web presence that
> references OpenStreetMap including but not limited to domain names, forums,
> mailing lists to the Foundation.
>

I don't see why the OSM-F automatically has rights to these when the
agreement is terminated. While there is a case for trademark infringement,
each country has its own trademark laws and each country's registrar has its
own dispute resolution mechanisms.


It seems that these will just discourage local chapters from going into an
agreement with OSM-F. I would imagine that potential local chapters would
just prefer to be completely independent instead.

I very much prefer the local chapter structure adopted by the Wikimedia
Foundation.


Eugene (osm:seav)


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:34 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Cragg Nilson <cragg.nilson at gmail.com>
> Date: 2010/1/22
> Subject: Request to approve Local Chapter Agreement at Board Meeting
> To: local at osmfoundation.org, board at osmfoundation.org
>
>
>
> The Local Chapter working group has finalised a proposed agreement for
> establishing federated organisations afflicated with OpenStreetMap.
> The document maybe read here:
> http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfpdhmxk_23htjdnjgv
> The purpose is to provide a template agreement for each Local Chapter.
> The agreement may be adapted for local laws and regulations.
> The process for approving a Local Chapter is proposed as an applicant
> submitting this agreement to the Local Chapter working group, together
> with a cover letter.  The LCWG will review each proposed agreement,
> and then submit to the OSM Board for final approval.
> We ask that the Board review and approve this template agreement, and
> decide on a membership fee scheme.  Henk Hoff will represent the
> document at the board meeting.
> best
> Cragg & Henk on behalf of the LCWG
>
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