[Talk-ca] Community consultation re Windsor Hackforge OSMF Local Chapter Application

[john whelan]

My thoughts are an Ontario County is a fairly small area for an OSM chapter.

Cheerio John

On Mon, May 23, 2022, 08:13 Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm Eugene, one of the members of the Board of the OSM Foundation. I would
> just like to ask mappers and the local community from Ontario, especially
> those based in the City of Windsor and Essex County. The OSMF received an
> application from Windsor Hackforge (https://hackf.org/) to become an OSMF
> Local Chapter. Please see the application documents here:
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Windsor-Essex_Ontario_Canada
>
> My question is, would the local community feel comfortable with Windsor
> Hackforge becoming a Local Chapter for the Windsor-Essex area? As stated in
> the OSMF website, "Local Chapters are country-level or region-level
> not-for-profit legal entities representing the area's OSM mappers and OSM
> data when dealing with local government, business, and media." Does Windsor
> Hackforge fit the bill?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eugene Alvin Villar
> OSM Foundation Board
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