[OSMF-membership] Fwd: Re: Membership sign up through SOTM US
Dave Corley
davecorley at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 19:59:03 UTC 2015
Hi all,
Given things are only being setup at the moment I think its best this is
held off this time around at least. There are more pressing things to be
done with CiviCRM first. However in the future, once its up and running, I
would like to look at this again.
At the very least its a good way of increasing OSMF membership numbers,
funds and support which can not be a bad thing no matter how its achieved.
To give another example, further down the line I'd like to see if we could
do some kind of linking with approved local chapters where a new member
joins (see: supports) the local OSM chapter for X but can also join the
OSMF for an additional X. This would be especially beneficial in poorer
countries where the current £15 price would equate to a few weeks income.
As for it being outside the scope of this WG. If expanding the membership
is not part of the remit, whats the point? By expanding I am also including
diversity (ethnicity, region, sex, age, language etc etc) as well as just
pure numbers increasing. In my personal view, I don't see why the scope of
this WG wouldn't extend to, among other things:
- promote local chapter growth on a country by country basis
- provide member services to assist with community growth on a local level
- convert more visitors to members of OSM > members of OSM to contributors
> contributors of OSM to OSMF members
and so on and so on
This is what I spoke about previously where people who've signed up for
this WG will have pre-conceived notions about this WG, myself included.
Unfortunately I am about to head out to Lesotho for 2 weeks so delving into
peoples heads will have to wait until after I get back but this is
something that absolutely should happen if this WG is to be effective.
Dave
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Other opinions?
>
> As I understand it there is no connection between the local event in
> NYC and OSMF. Correct me if I'm missing something.
>
> Why would OSMF offer a discounted membership to those attending a
> non-OSMF event? Would OSMF offer a similar discount to attendees of
> any local event? What if that event was only tangentially related to
> mapping, or not related to mapping at all?
>
> On the other hand, to encourage best practices, OSMF could offer
> discounted membership to any mapper who performs high-value mapping,
> by local survey. If one recognizes the very best in mapping, the
> membership would be free, as recognized by the recent acceptance of
> the fee waiver membership resolution.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard
>
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