[talk-ph] OpenStreetMap Philippines Inc. Formation

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

I'm all for a non-profit organization.

One thing to note is that OSM PH Inc. will simply be a membership
organization for people who want to promote OSM in the Philippines and will
work as a local representative of the OSM Foundation. Nothing more.

This means that nobody in the Philippines should be forced to join OSM PH
Inc. just to contribute to OSM or to use data from OSM, or to ask permission
from OSM PH Inc. to use OSM data. Also, OSM PH Inc. as an entity *cannot*
dictate which Philippine data goes into the OSM dataset or not, or to set
binding conventions on editing the dataset.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the "OSM Philippines community" (the
loose set of people from or in the Philippines that contribute to OSM) is
not equivalent to "OSM Philippines Inc." (a formal OSM advocacy
organization). Of course, there will be a large overlap between the two.


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner
<andre at enthropia.com>wrote:

> Well I'll do my best to answer that, though in the end such would be up
> to the board members and officers of the formal org once formed and thus
> would likely also consult with the community on it.
>
> For members, I see it as a formality also of being registered with the
> local organization, OSM is an open system so anyone can register and
> edit the map but membership could be like for people who want to be more
> part of the work going on here in the Philippines.
> Benefits can be:
> - Invitation, participation in local press/media events
> - Official membership with ID
> - The ability to represent OSM Philippines officially wherever you go.
> - Be on the receiving end of donations or items that the org purchases
> to further its mapping capabilities. Like receive a GPS unit or stipend
> from the Org if you are going on a mapping trip for example.
> - Have a say in all things regarding the org, like a vote or something
> in important decisions.
> Ofcourse with benefits will probably come responsibilities like:
> - Participating in events or meetings which OSM is conducting
> - performing specific mapping tasks which need doing
> - not abusing the priviledges given to you by membership
> - regular activity in mapping.
>
> and maybe there could be just a registered type of member with little
> responsibilities and less priviledges and a more active type of member
> registration which has more stuff. Anyway these are all just thoughts of
> what could be done with membership.
> Why have membership? Well since it would be a formal org, you want some
> kind of organization within it rather than not have any. Even a little
> organizing is good.
> Anyone want to add to my list :)
>
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