[Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

[Pradeep Mohandas]

Hello all,

In the Virtual Mappy Hours held yesterday, the OSM Chair Allan Mustard had
suggested that we go ahead with the formation of an Indian chapter and
officially affiliate with the OSM Foundation. This enables us to use the
OSM Trademark officially.

I thought I would start the thread on this list for people interested in
this effort.

I know that there is an active Telegram group going on, but I think putting
things on the mailing list will help archive the effort and discussion that
goes into formation of a Chapter. For future historians of the
movement,this would be something akin to the Constituent Assembly
discussions are to India today.

On the chat yesterday, I had cautioned that India has had previous bitter
experiences with running organisations wherein a Foundation manages the
organisations or groups in various countries. We are seeing the effect of
that in the Wikimedia movement in India. Naveen, also on this group, has
first-hand experience with this as he was involved in the formation of the
Wikimedia India Chapter.

I hope that such previous experiences of the members here will help us
avoid the pitfalls and help to form a much more stronger OSM India Chapter.
In India, the experience has been that the introduction of an organisation
leads to dis-organisation of the community. I hope we can stay in this
together and for the long haul.

Sincerely,
Pradeep

user:pradx on OSM
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