[talk-au] Local entity

[John Smith]

2009/12/17 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com>:
> I don't understand all those ambigious terms - "an agreement" "your
> problem" etc. Are they saying an agreement form/contract does not yet
> exist and that is why they will not give permission?

They are currently trying to come up with local chapters cross
agreement documents, but the problem with that whole process is there
is about half a dozen different ideas on what a local chapter actually
should be, I was actively involved a few months ago on this but it
went dead for some reason.

> Plenty of open source projects like OpenMoko and Ubuntu have clear "no
> permission required for community use" trademark licences. Ubuntu even
> offer their policy as CC-BY-SA for other projects to use:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy

Again this is part of the bigger issue of local chapters and what a
local chapter is and how it relates to OSM-F.

> OpenStreetMap has a lot of name recognition and I'd much rather say
> I'm a member of OpenStreetMap Australia/Oceania than the Open
> Cartography Society, the representative/local/supporting organisation
> of OpenStreetMap in Australia. But as long as our charter is in tied
> to the work we do with OSM, it's fulfilling the same objective.

I'm aware of the pros/cons on the issue, but I'm equally disgruntled
with the response I've had about this.

The reason for my post was to see what others had to say on the situation.