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

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 10:55:06 GMT 2009


Setting-up a local chapter would be great on the long-term.  What
about on the short-term?  Any ideas?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> 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 <
> 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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