[OSM-talk] Local Chapters Meeting Minutes WAS Re: Status of the Local Chapter working group

[Nick Black]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>wrote:

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> On 18 Aug 2009, at 09:17, Nick Black wrote:
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> John,
> I said:
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>  so if you can't make it but would like to, please add your name to the
> wiki so we can have a second call at a better time.
>
> No-one is trying to exclude you - especially not the people who are trying
> set up local groups and make OSM and the OSM-F more inclusive :-)  If there
> are people who want to take the call at a Australia/Asia/New Zealand
> friendly time, I've said that I'll go out of my way to make it and I'm sure
> some of the other Local Chapters volunteers will as well.
>
> Please add your details to the wiki page, suggest some friendly times and
> we'll set up a call.  Alternatively, organize the call yourself at any time
> you want and give you feedback to the Local Chapters group
> local at osmfoundation.org.
>
>
> Would a 'local chapters' email list not be a great way to include people
> from all around the world on different time zones for to include those for
> whom English is a second language? A combination of email list and wiki
> allow people to work at a time of there convenience, gives people time to
> read and write at their own speed (using translation tools if necessary) and
> there is a full history of the discussion.
>

Sounds good.

Mike - could you do the honours and set up a local chapters mailing list
please?




>
> I suggest that conference calls and IRC are only used for those issues
> where email is not working or getting to an resolution on a difficult
> subject.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> --
> Nick
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> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>wrote:
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>> --- On Tue, 18/8/09, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Chapters meetings.  You can find minutes here [1] along
>> > with information about the next meeting.
>>
>> There seems to be more questions posed than answers in the minutes...
>>
>> > The next meeting is proposed for the 24th August
>> > at 18.00 - 19:30 BST.  I know this is not great for a lot
>> > of people who are in non-BST friendly time zones, so if you
>> > can't make it but would like to, please add your name to
>> > the wiki so we can have a second call at a better
>> > time.
>>
>> I did, but it didn't seem to make a difference, also there is at least one
>> other person that would like to have been in the conference but wasn't an
>> insomniac last night either.
>>
>> > One of the goals of the meeting next week will
>> > be to set a timetable for getting local chapters set up,
>> > which will be largely dependent on how much we all agree /
>> > disagree in the call.  Until then, please read over the
>> > Local Chapters wiki page and add as many comments or ideas
>> > as possible, so we can discuss next week.
>>
>> It's a bit exclusionary to state that and then already acknowledge that
>> people can't make it due to time of day.
>>
>>
>>
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