[Osmf-talk] Local Chapter application - Ireland

[Jorden Verwer]

All,

It saddens me to see such a shameless display of hostility towards our 
Irish friends. Unless a rule or regulation forbids local chapters from 
covering overlapping geographical areas, I can think of no reason to 
reject this application. In fact I think it makes a lot of sense for one 
organization to cover all of Ireland, first and foremost from a 
geographical point of view. We shouldn't let lines on a map get in the 
way of improving said map.

Kind regards,

Jorden

On 2019-08-23 02:13, Steve Doerr wrote:
> Completely unacceptable. The scope needs to be limited to the Irish
> Free State, aka Irish Republic. There can be no question of a local
> 'chapter' that presumes to include Northern Ireland as part of an
> entity dominated by the Irish Republic.
> 
> On 22/08/2019 19:23, Heather Leson wrote:
> 
>> Dear OSMF
>> 
>> The OSM community in Ireland has submitted an application to be a
>> local chapter.
>> 
>> Please provide any input by Thursday, September 5, 2019.  The board
>> welcome input on this list or to the board directly.
>> 
>> Details:
>> 
>> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters
>> 
>> Thank you to the Ireland team for this submission.
>> 
>> Heather