[Osmf-talk] OSGeo Oceania Local Chapter application

[Violaine_Do]

Hi all,

Also need to share my views,

I am living in Tahiti (French polynesia) and promote OSM here with 2 
caps, as a volunteer and as a professionnal in GIS.

As Ed and Greg mentionned we are veryvery few in the islands. In Tahiti, 
main island (180 000 habitant, part of French polynesia = 280 000hab), I 
am sadly the only one actively pushing for OSM. Some people are 
opensource and opendata sensitive, we organize activities from time to 
time together, for inclusion and sensitization. We might never have an 
OSM community, but rather an open source/opendata community. I still am 
pretty happy that some institutions involve into OSM following 
sensitization. So, we are few but manage to do things. I am not talking 
about mass edits, not my objective :)

Back to the point : it would not make any sense for French polynesia to 
be a local chapter (to answer Christopher question) : because we will 
never be enough, well enough structured, or maybe in 10 years of time. 
Being part of a regional local chapter would also allow our regional 
representative to represent all of us af the OSMf (even if, we are juste 
one voice in Tahiti). At Tahiti scale, Oceania local chapter, could 
support development of local knowledge, by supporting events 
organisation, and facilitate regional links/relations. I prefer 
something inclusive where Tahiti could have a voice (as it would be at 
Oceanian scale), than exclusive if our islands would not be represented 
(if local chapter would only be NZ+Australia). We had a discussion about 
official mission of this local chapter and it was clear that this 
chapter would have a role of facilitation and promotion, if and only if 
local communities ask for it, but not coordination. I don't see yet any 
issue with it.

Hope my point makes sense to you. I like also the proposal of Frederik 
to add an option for us to build our local chapter (Tahiti scale), the 
day we are ready.

Best regards

Violaine

PS: excuse my english

Le 11/08/2020 à 22:17, Andrew Harvey a écrit :
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 20:45, Joost Schouppe [OSMF secretary] 
> <secretary at osmfoundation.org <mailto:secretary at osmfoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     You may be aware that OsGeo Oceania has applied to become an
>     official Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. As part of
>     the application process, we would like to ask you, the OSMF
>     membership, how you feel about this. Do you support this
>     application? Do you have any questions, comments or concerns?
>
>
> I'm supportive of the application, but I think that goes without 
> saying as I'm one of the people behind the push for the application to 
> become a LC.
>
> I'm in agreement with Edoardo and Greg's comments here.
>
> From the OSGeo Oceania side I don't see anything preventing future 
> single country organisations emerging, but right now there are not 
> enough volunteers and resources to start a local chapter for each 
> country, by having a single organisation covering the whole region our 
> precious resources can be pooled for the benefit of everyone more 
> efficiently.
>
> > I also have my doubts on the significance OpenStreetMap plays in the
> OSGeo Oceania activities in general and if the position of the OSM
> community within the organization is strong enough for it to fulfill
> the role of a local chapter.  But i have not looked at this deeply
> enough to form a clear opinion.
>
> As Edoardo mentioned we are forming some kind of OSM working group 
> within OSGeo Oceania which will have a more narrow focus, but even 
> without that OSGeo Oceania's Terms of Reference say "Its purpose is to 
> foster the growth of the geospatial open source & open data community 
> in the Oceania region, including the oversight and stewardship of a 
> FOSS4G & SotM Conference series", open data community covers 
> OpenStreetMap.
>
> For our last two conferences we had a healthy amount of participants, 
> sponsors and program content which mostly fell in the OSM "camp", 
> certainly not insignificant.
>
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Violaine_Do

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