[Talk-us] US Chapter Mission Statement

[Chris Hunter]

Well, since no one has made a stab at this yet, I went ahead and did some
research on mission statements in general, and OSMF's mission statement.

*Mission Statement:*
[US OSMF] is dedicated to improving the availability, quantity and accuracy
of open-sourced cartographic information in the United States, its
territories, protectorates and possessions.

*Vision Statement:*
To achieve this goal, [US OSMF] seeks to:

   - Promote public awareness of the Open Street Map.
   - Locate and secure freely-available public access to useful mapping
   data.
   - Function as a US Not-for-profit Corporation to handle any copyright and
   liability issues that may arise.
   - Serve as a point of contact with individuals, corporations, and
   government entities for securing data, equipment and funding for OSM-related
   activities.
   - Interact with the international Open Street Map Foundation to promote
   the issues and concerns of OSM users in the United States.


Anyone else have ideas?
DiverCTH (a.k.a. Chris Hunter)


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>wrote:

> As many of you know, we're working on forming a US chapter of OSM.
>
> To that end, we've been having conference calls Monday evenings:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States
>
> And one open issue has been the mission statement.
>
> We'd like to have an open ended discussion of what people feel the
> mission statement should be.
>
> I'm sure people have thoughts on this issue, so let em rip.
>
> - Serge
>
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