[Local-chapters] My (very incomplete) summary of the "OpenStreetMap chapters and OSM Foundation meet up" at SotM 2018 in Milano

[Rob Nickerson]

Thanks. And sorry for the delay in my response. 

I would be more than happy to share ideas and comments here. But what?
Which areas are people struggling with? And are there areas where a
Working Group or Board intervention would help. 

For OSM UK the main challenges are finding the volunteer time to commit
to the local chapter. We have lots of people willing to map, but less
willing to help with promotion (at least via a central group) and some
admin tasks. 

Our other main challenge is funds. We are small and have very limited
funds. 

Did any discussion about Micro Grants occur at State of the Map?

Thank you,
ROB NICKERSON
OpenStreetMap United Kingdom
https://osmuk.org/
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On 2018-07-30 10:31, Raphael Das Gupta (das-g) wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> As already posted in the SotM 2018 Telegram channel:
> 
> Local chapters and other local organizations (or unorganizations) shall
> join local-chapters at openstreetmap.org (this list) at
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/local-chapters to coordinate
> and help each other.
> 
> Also, local chapters should inform the OSMF (or relevant working group)
> if they feel the board, a working group or the foundation can help with
> something. On the other hand, local chapters feel that by working
> together, they (the chapters) may be able to provide more services and
> infrastructure to the community without overloading the the OSMF with
> things that aren't exactly OSM "core business".
> 
> There has been discussion about whether to found a working group in
> which local chapters will coordinate. That shall be futher discussed on
> the local-chapters at openstreetmap.org mailing list.
> 
> (Note that the previous "local chapters" working group was about
> defining what a local chapter is and has more or less ceased action once
> that was done and the first chapter had been accepted. Accepting new
> local chapters is not done by that working group, but by the OSMF board.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Raphael
> 
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