[Osmf-talk] OSGeo Oceania Local Chapter application

[Edoardo Neerhut]

I don't think I implied that at all. Greg phrased it better than I did
though:* "I would support 100% a local Pacific Island chapter emerging but
really believe a supranational group would provide the building blocks for
this to happen."*

The reality is that there is very little local OSM activity in some of the
countries of Oceania. There are multiple factors behind this including
limited internet access, smaller populations, less established open source
communities, and economies with a very different profile to Germany or
Belgium. None of these are reasons why there can't be local OSM activity,
but we believe a regional local chapter is a great platform to overcome
them.

Even the larger populations of Australia and New Zealand have decided that
we're much better working together at the moment than operating
independently, and the communities in both these communities are
quite substantial.

It sounds like we all want to see local OSM activity throughout Oceania.
OSGeo Oceania and the OSM Working group feel that a supranational body is
the best way to do that. Indeed many citizens of countries in Oceania agree
as evidenced in their involvement thus far.

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 18:53, Christoph Hormann via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the comments.  This does provide quite a bit of additional
> useful info though it does not in my eyes address my core argument -
> namely that there is a lack of substantial justification for engrossing
> culturally highly distinct regions in the scope that are not
> substantially represented in the organization as local OSM communities.
>
> What you write in that direction:
>
> > Speaking for myself here, I would be fully supportive if sustainable
> > national chapters were to emerge. In my opinion a supranational body
> > is a prerequisite to ever seeing such momentum in the region.
>
> implies that you consider small local and culturally distinct
> communities in Oceania to be inherently incapable of forming a
> sustainable independent local chapter on their own.  Could you
> elaborate on your reasoning behind this?  Why do you believe that to be
> the case?
>
> And to pick up the comment from Yves:  Why do you think it is overall
> useful for a local community in the strive to form an independent local
> chapter to be engossed in a supranational local chapter before?
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
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