[Osmf-talk] OSGeo Oceania Local Chapter application

[Yves]

Frederik, in your example none of this would help New Guinea to build something from the bottom up. 

Le 11 août 2020 18:30:31 GMT+02:00, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>On 8/11/20 16:31, Christoph Hormann via osmf-talk wrote:
>> I have thought about this quite a bit and my recommendation is that the
>> OSMF not accept local chapters on a supranational level. 
>
>Could we perhaps accept "supranational" local chapters with a
>contractual extra that goes like:
>
>"Should the community of an individual country (or smaller group of
>countries) within the area claimed by $LOCAL_CHAPTER want to form their
>own local chapter in the future, the OSMF and $LOCAL CHAPTER commit to
>modifying this agreement to make room for the new regional chapter."
>
>My thinking is that while being represented by an organisation from
>Hobart might not be ideal for the mapper from New Guinea, maybe it is
>still a tiny bit better than being represented from Cambridge, UK?
>
>Another option would be to request that supranational chapters take
>active steps to solicit representation from all countries they aim to
>represent, and report on these efforts regularly. I.e. in order not to
>lose their status of representing New Guinea, OSGeo Oceania would have
>to show that they're active there in some form. And that would have to
>be more than just saying "well people from New Guinea can join our
>mailing list." ;) -- then again, we'd be asking more of the chapter than
>we're doing ourselves.
>
>Bye
>Frederik
>
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