[Talk-ca] Community consultation re Windsor Hackforge OSMF Local Chapter Application
Steve Singer
steve at ssinger.info
Mon May 23 16:16:00 UTC 2022
On Mon, 23 May 2022, Eugene Alvin Villar 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?
I don't see much OSM specific activity under https://hackf.org. They have
sub-groups for a variety of technologies but not OSM. I also don't remember
them running any/many OSM themed events (mapping parties etc).
The opendatawindsor group
(http://hackf.org/initiatives/opendatawindsoressex/) doesn't even mention
openstreetmap and it looks like it was using municipal data not OSM data.
Steve
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eugene Alvin Villar
> OSM Foundation Board
>
>
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