Hi John/Graeme and OSM Team, I’m quite new to OSM but am getting fantastic help by Joel and Stephane from OSM Brisbane in organising Mapathon events with the local QLD Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter which I am a part of.
I am interested in getting involved if there is to be a local OSM Brisbane/QLD Chapter- there is a lot of interest from the EWB community (as well as the company I work for) in regards to Missing Maps events and is something I would like to get our chapters involved with OSM nationally! Cheers, Ritva Vilppola Sustainability Consultant [cid:image001.jpg@01D4D35A.9F107400]<http://www.wsp.com/> T: +7 3535 1518 ritva.vilpp...@wsp.com WSP Australia Pty Limited Level 12, 900 Ann Street Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006 Australia wsp.com<http://www.wsp.com> This message, including any document or file attached, is intended only for the addressee and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. Any other person is strictly prohibited from reading, using, disclosing or copying this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the message. Thank you. From: John Bryant [mailto:johnwbry...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:41 PM To: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> Cc: OSM-Au <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter Hi Graeme, thanks a lot for bringing it up, it's a good opportunity to share a work-in-progress. Yes, there is work going on right now, and apologies for not making it more widely known... we're scrambling a bit to pull together both this and the 2019 conference, trying to get a number of balls rolling at once. The committee that organised FOSS4G SotM Oceania in November is in the process of doing the legwork to form an entity. Right now, we are pulling together a draft recommendation that we'll share with the community for feedback. Aiming to have this draft complete by the 15th, and then open it up to the community for a two week consultation period. Presuming that leads to a recommendation to form an entity, we should have something in place by the end of April. Forming local chapters of OSMF and OSGeo is one of the key reasons to do this - also it will make it a lot easier to manage funds and sign contracts when organising community events like the conference. Again, sorry for the lack of communication - we definitely intend to grow this organisation, the immediate priority is to build a strong foundation, and to do this we need to communicate. Hopefully we can catch our breath shortly here and re-prioritise the engagement of the community. In the meantime, what kinds of activities would you see a local chapter of OSMF undertaking? Cheers John On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 13:08, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com<mailto:graemefi...@gmail.com>> wrote: There was mention late last year of setting up a local Chapter https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2018-December/012227.html, but haven't heard anything further since? Just been doing some random browsing & found this https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Australia, which discussed the same thing back in 2010. Is any of that info still relevant? Thanks Graeme _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ________________________________ NOTICE: This communication and any attachments ("this message") may contain information which is privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise subject to restricted disclosure under applicable law. This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized use, disclosure, viewing, copying, alteration, dissemination or distribution of, or reliance on, this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, or you are not an authorized or intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message, delete this message and all copies from your e-mail system and destroy any printed copies. -LAEmHhHzdJzBlTWfa4Hgs7pbKl
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