[Talk-us] US Chapter Mission Statement

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
> Frederik,
> That makes sense to me.  I just wasn't sure if there were issues we had not
> though about.  Americans abroad for example.  Would we discourage them from
> becoming members of a U.S. chapter? Though I agree that those becoming
> members of multiple chapters could complicate internal processes.  So maybe
> the answer is to state somewhere that an individual can only be a member of
> one chapter at a time.

Kate,

I don't really understand the concern here.

I don't think we want to carve up international territories of
mapping. If someone from the UK, Brazil, Thailand or whatever want to
come to the US and map- I'm grateful for the help.

If a US mapper wants to go to Italy or UK and map- I'd think that'd be okay too.

As for where a person is based- I think we're over thinking that too.

Look at someone like SteveC. Is he based in the UK or in the US?

I think these issues generally sort themselves out and are orthogonal
to the issue of the charter.

- Serge