[talk-au] OSM representation in Australia

[James Livingston]

On 11/08/2009, at 11:29 PM, John Smith wrote:

>
> --- On Tue, 11/8/09, James Livingston <doctau at mac.com> wrote:
>> From what I've read about OSM Local Chapters, we would
>> have a local
>> entity which is "federated" to the OSM Foundation. Which
>> means that
>> the local entity (e.g. OSM Australia, although it could be
>> an existing
>> mapping/GIS body not exclusive to OSM) can say they
>> officially
>> represent OSM in Australia, use the OSM trademark, have all
>> of our
>> members be voting members of OSMF, and the like.
>
> That's not what's currently on the wiki, they explicitly state being  
> a member of a local chapter doesn't make you a member of OSMF and  
> vice versa.
>
> Also no mention the the chapter itself being a member of OSMF.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters
>
> Automatic membership might have been suggested at some point by  
> someone but it doesn't look like it has been continued for various  
> legal/liability reasons etc.

Ah, that seems to have been updates two days ago, and a whole bunch of  
things are now different then they were before (in some cases, saying  
the complete opposite).

I probably should have re-read the page first.