[talk-au] Local Chapter

[John Bryant]

Hi Graeme, thanks a lot for bringing it up, it's a good opportunity to
share a work-in-progress.

Yes, there is work going on right now, and apologies for not making it more
widely known... we're scrambling a bit to pull together both this and the
2019 conference, trying to get a number of balls rolling at once.

The committee that organised FOSS4G SotM Oceania in November is in the
process of doing the legwork to form an entity. Right now, we are pulling
together a draft recommendation that we'll share with the community for
feedback. Aiming to have this draft complete by the 15th, and then open it
up to the community for a two week consultation period. Presuming that
leads to a recommendation to form an entity, we should have something in
place by the end of April.

Forming local chapters of OSMF and OSGeo is one of the key reasons to do
this - also it will make it a lot easier to manage funds and sign contracts
when organising community events like the conference.

Again, sorry for the lack of communication - we definitely intend to grow
this organisation, the immediate priority is to build a strong foundation,
and to do this we need to communicate. Hopefully we can catch our breath
shortly here and re-prioritise the engagement of the community. In the
meantime, what kinds of activities would you see a local chapter of OSMF
undertaking?

Cheers
John

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 13:08, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There was mention late last year of setting up a local Chapter
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2018-December/012227.html,
> but haven't heard anything further since?
>
> Just been doing some random browsing & found this
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Australia,
> which discussed the same thing back in 2010.
>
> Is any of that info still relevant?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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