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

[Mike Collinson]

Maning, Eugene, Nick,

I am cc'ing Nick Black for his info. He is my fellow OSMF board member who is working on the structure and procedure for OSMF local chapters. It certainly would be great to see a Philippines chapter forming; a very vibrant community is developing and I think you guys are gaining a lot of experience in getting local government and other data contributions that we'd all like to know about.

Mike

At 01:33 PM 27/01/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>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 <<mailto:emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>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).
>
>--
>cheers,
>maning
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