[talk-au] Local Chapter

[John Bryant]

Maritjn, thank you, that would be much appreciated!

Andrew Harvey is on our Board and will likely want to be involved in this
as well, I imagine. There has been some talk about an OSM sub-committee of
sorts, I suppose this will come in due course but thought it might become
relevant to this discussion.

Re: timing - I'd think we'd be keen to gain local chapter status as soon as
possible after we form an entity (targeting end April), so perhaps we can
aim to make a submission to OSMF in early May? This would likely help us
build up the SotM part of FOSS4G SotM Oceania...

Cheers
John

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 08:07, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> John — I used to be OSMF secretary and have guided multiple local groups
> through the OSMF LC application process. I am no longer on the board but
> know the current secretary, and am happy to help with the process if needed.
>
> Martijn
>
> On Mar 4, 2019, at 8:41 PM, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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