[Osmf-talk] OSGeo Oceania Local Chapter application

[Edoardo Neerhut]

Some benefits of a supranational organisation that come to mind:

   - Ability to host sell out conferences with hundreds of people. This has
   generated substantial funds to support OSM efforts in the region. It would
   be a lot harder to organise this at a national level, particularly in
   countries with smaller populations and economies.
   - Formal organisation that can support initiatives like the Travel Grant
   Program that Greg outlined and NZAID supported. This greatly increases the
   pool of funding that we can make available for people and initiatives
   throughout the region.
   - Shared learnings. As Greg mentioned, there are significant population
   flows throughout the region. One of our conference volunteers for example
   is a Fijian native who has studied and worked in Australia, but has now
   returned to Fiji and is working there whilst also chairing the next
   regional conference. Having one organisation means these learnings can be
   shared across multiple countries and years. The solutions to problems that
   we solve can be shared rather than re-inventing the wheel each time.
   - Larger pool of volunteers to draw from which helps to prevent burnout.


On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 20:33, Christoph Hormann via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 August 2020, Edoardo Neerhut wrote:
> > 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."*
>
> As already said i would like to learn why you believe that.
>
> > 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.
>
> Again - i would appreciate if you'd share the reasoning behind that
> belief.
>
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