[talk-ph] supporting OSM Philippines and representing OSM Philippines to various orgs.

[Ahmed Farooq]

I can look into setting up a legal non-profit entity to help support OSM.

 

 

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[mailto:talk-ph-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Eugene Alvin Villar
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:33 AM
To: maning sambale
Cc: osm-ph
Subject: Re: [talk-ph] supporting OSM Philippines and representing OSM
Philippines to various orgs.

 

The OSMF has a plan on having local chapters, somewhat similar in style to
the Wikimedia Foundation's chapters. That's the only way we can represent
OSM in a legal and official sense.

But basing on the currently ongoing plans of setting up a Wikimedia
Philippines chapter since 2007, I doubt that we can create an OpenStreetMap
Philippines organization anytime soon after the OSMF has approved the
policies for setting up local chapters.

Then again, there are plenty of people in this mailing list that have
experience setting up SEC-registered companies. In Wikipedia, we are all
just a bunch of academically-inclined people. :-)



On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

I am receiving emails lately on how to support OSM Philippines.  The
natural response I give is: join OSM, collect data, edit the database,
tell your friends about OSM Philippines.  Do we need more support
other than what I mentioned?  Do we need event sponsors, funds,  free
beer?

On another side of the coin, I also approach some orgs (particularly
LGUs) to support or provide data for OSM Philippines.  The usual
response is: "we want to know more about your organization so we can
discuss it".  Well, we don't have any formal org.  What "legal" basis
can we represent OSM Phil to these organizations?  Is anybody a member
of the OSM foundation? Perhaps we can capitalize on such affiliation.

Any ideas?  Or we just keep on mapping (me thinks we should).

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