[OSM-talk-be] Helping out OpenStreetMap Belgium Working Group! (was: 'Mapper of the month')

[Ben Abelshausen]

Hi,

Glenn asked to elaborate on the todo-list:

Mapping parties/meetups: We need more of this!

- Helping Nicolas with the mapping party: You can help him by advertising
showing up of just email him and ask him what you can do:
nicolas at pettiaux.be and more information is here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Activities#Invitation_.C3.A0_une_Cartopartie_.5B1.5D_.C3.A0_Bruxelles_-_Samedi_25_Avril_2015.2C_9h_.C3.A0_13h
- Organize a local meetup: Not very difficult just go and sit somewhere and
wait for people to show up. We have noticed that this gets people more
involved and communication improves.
- Organize a mapping party: A very good idea!
- West-Vlaanderen community-contact-person: We need someone (preferable
from WVL) that can communicate with me and local orgs like westtoer to
organize a couple of mapping parties. Workload is very low except when it's
about to happen (the mapping party that is).

Other TODO's:

- Website improvements: I think our website looks like ****. We urgently
need some work on this. We also need someone to update drupal or move to
another platform (less maintenance), and setup proper multilingual support.
- Communication, for example, weekly OSM and managing the
twitter-account/facebook group a bit better... ;-) Also a FR-speaking
volunteer would help a lot.
- Emailing to your province about the 'Atlas der Buurtwegen': The rights to
the maps are at provincial level. We need to contact each province
individually and ask them (each and every one) to release the maps for use
in OSM. This is an important issue because in the past it has been assumed
free and open but these maps are NOT!
- Local Chapter: I want to submit a proposal to become a local chapter of
OSMF. Anyone willing to help with some of the administration and reading
the procedure, contacting Paul Norman, etc...

Some of these may seem strange and you could say that we should all just
stick to mapping but I think these actions can improve our community and
give more visibility to OSM.

Cheers,

Ben
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