[talk-au] Local Chapter

[Edoardo Neerhut]

Thanks for the effort you've put into this Andrew.

Simon, you raise a good point! What do you all think is an effective way to
get this input? Reach out to people we know are active mappers in Oceania
and see if they would like their country to be represented?

On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 21:18, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 19:12, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>
>> I think my immediate and largest concern if I was reviewing the
>> application (which I am not) would be: Oceania isn't just about Australia.
>>
>
> I would expect nothing less from the OSMF.
>
> Have OSM communities outside of AUS (and NZ) even been addressed? While
>> not totally cast in stone, there is an assumption that territorial
>> chapters are awarded exclusive rights for the territories in question
>> and I'm fairly sure the application will blow up in a big way if this is
>> not considered.
>>
>
> I agree. There has been bit of discussion within the OSGeo Oceania
> committee regarding this.
>
> My opinion is we should only include countries where the local OSM
> community actively voice they want it.
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-au mailing list
> Talk-au at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/attachments/20190527/e3cb1493/attachment-0001.html>