[Local-chapters] Requirements Local Chapters

[Ulf Möller]

Looks good. Two comments:

 > The legal name of the organization should be "OpenStreetMap [name of 
country in local language]".

Exceptions should be allowed for cultural reasons, not just for legal 
ones. For example OSM is called 开放街道地图 in Chinese, so a Chinese 
organization should be able to use that name and not the English one.

 > The local chapter may not run it's own database instance for editing 
purposes.

They shouldn't try to replace the main database, but I don't think there 
is any problem if they run a database for a specific project.

Ulf


Henk Hoff schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> It has been some time since the last update and meeting about Local 
> Chapters.
>
> Based on the discussions in our last meetings and some one-on-one 
> discussions with some of you, I've set up a new document with 
> requirements/guidelines for local chapters. This document is loosy 
> based on the requirements/guidelines the Wikimedia Foundation has set 
> up for it's local chapters.
>
> This document should be the basis to set up a local chapter. The 
> official agreement between the individual LC and the Foundation can 
> handle all the specific issues related to the laws/regulations/etc 
> concerning that country. But that would be discussions between the 
> concerning LC and the Foundation.
>
> Here's the document: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd8ngscc_11f58875c7
>
> Comments are welcomed. Please use seperate e-mail threads for specific 
> subjects of comment.
>
> For those who would like to talk about it, I'll invite you to a 
> conference call tomorrow *(Friday) at 7pm GMT* 
> (http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time/scripts/clock-8/runner.php). 
> I'll send the dail-in codes later.
>
> Cheers,
> Henk Hoff
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