Hi Kate + group,
There's been a bit of confusion around Local Chapters meetings - I tried to
sort out the confusion last week, but clearly did not do a very good job ;-)
Sorry if you guys wasted your time today.
A lot of the community felt that the best way forward for Local Chapters
would be to make comments based on the proposed Local Chapters agreement on
the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters
Anyone who is interested in Local Chapters should add comments to the
proposed agreement. The aim is to find all there areas where there are
disagreements and then try and solve them one by one.
What I've suggested before is:
"What I propose is that we set a date of the 18th September (4 weeks away)
in which we as a group of people interested in Local Chapters can discuss
and debate the way forward and then deliver a second draft of the
agreement(s) that will allow those Local Chapters who are ready to go to
sign up and get going.
In the meantime, we'll mainly focus on textual commenting. If we need phone
calls, we can arrange them as needed."
The good news, especially for the patient and keen Locals like Ivan, is that
the OSM-F board agreed last Saturday that we could go ahead and start to
form local chapters based on a provisional agreement. The board felt - and
I hope this is reflected by the community - that having one master agreement
for all local chapters would not work and that the role of the Local
Chapters group should be to negotiate an agreement with each local chapter
that takes into account local specifics (like how hard it is to set up a
non-profit in the USA or why Dutch groups can't have members and so on).
Of course, some things will need to be the same for each agreement. Local
Chapters will have to be democratic, have a mission statement that falls in
line with that of the OSM-F, and so on. We also talked about membership
fees. I really like the idea of using a PPP index (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity) to set a variable rate
membership as a way to help inclusiveness.
The next question of course, is who's chairing the Local Chapters working
group. I was previously the chair, and the OSM-F board have previously
agreed that only board members can chair working groups. So the group is
chair-less. I'm happy to continue as interim chairman or whatever.
AFAIK, Mike Collinson is in the process of setting up a Local Chapters
mailing list, which should make communication easier.
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Nick
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Kate Chapman wrote:
> There was an attempted Local Chapters Working Group call today, Andrew
> Turner, Vincent Meurisse and myself called in.
> We think the call needs to be rescheduled, it appears not many people could
> make it. Is there a better time for those that are interested? From
> looking at the wiki the time excluded those in Australia, New Zealand and
> Asia. Also it was noted that there wasn't a call in number for the
> Phillippines.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Meetings/24-August-2009
>
> In light of the recent board elections is there going to be a shift in
> leadership of the group as well?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kate Chapman
>
>
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