[OSM-talk] Local Chapters Working Group Update

[Nick Black]

Hello,

Here's an update on the current state of the local chapters working group:

*Local Chapters Agreement*

The debate around the details of setting up local chapters is happening on
the local chapters wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters and its
discussion page.  The whole community are welcome to join the discussion
about how we extend the benefits of OSM and the Foundation beyond the
current membership base.

The main areas of discussion are:

Payments:  The current agreement asks for £10 from each member of a
federated local chapter.  Many people have suggested that £10 would be too
much for members in some developing economies to pay.  One current
suggestion is to use "Purchasing Power Parity" [1] - an index similar to the
Big Mac Index, to calculate a local rate.

Membership: There is some controversy around the relationship between local
chapter members and the OSM-Foundation. There are broadly two opinions here:


1) All local chapter members are by default members of the OSM-Foundation.
The Local Chapter is affiliated to the Foundation
2) The Local Chapter members do not have to be members of the
OSM-Foundation. The Local Chapter is affiliated to the Foundation
*Next Meeting of the Local Chapters Group*

The local chapters working group will meet at 6pm BST on Weds 30th September
to discuss these issues and others.  The agenda of the meeting is:

* What is the process for creating draft agreements and approving local
chapters?  This includes a timeline for getting the first chapters set up
and identifying any discussion items that the local chapters group feel may
be blockers to moving forward with local chapter agreements.
* What is the process for continuing to refine the current agreement?
* Which parts of the agreement should be standard and which could be amended
for each group?


The local chapters group will report back to this list after our meeting
next week.  In the meantime, please comment on the agreement on the wiki
page, or mail us directly at local at osmfoundation.org.

If you have a chapter you'd like to set up, please add it to the list here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Proposed_Chapters


[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity


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Nick Black
twitter.com/nick_b
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