And as a local chapter new comers could suggest/view tasks to work on. Kind of like what we did for Fort Mac.
A centralized communication hub would enable us to move forward and concentrate our efforts(small remote villages for example) On Sep 28, 2017 12:12 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > In my view we definitely need OSMCanada to go beyond the big cities. It > is not "Canada" if we don't. > > In my view the main things that a collection of people cannot do on their > own are: > > 1) Have a bank account. There are groups that would give and organization > money to do things around OSM. You can't just give money to an > individual. Also might need to look into charitable status later on so > people could give donations and get a tax receipt (more paperwor overhead > for that) > > 2) Look into getting money from the feds. There have been announcements > about Feds making money available for Smart Cities and related activities, > for sure money cannot go to individuals. I am waiting to see the details > on what they are going to fund. > > Monies received could go towards meetups/hosting costs (which people pay > out of their own pocket now) as well as "hiring" people to work on specific > projects which normally they would not spend time on.... or maybe travel > costs to go do a survey in an area which needs help, but has no expert > mappers. or more training activities for folks. I could also see an > educational component whereas it would be great to have people go into > highschool civic classes and do a session on OSM. > > 3) The Building Canada 2020 project needs some leadership to make things > happen. Having an organization helping to drive that would make that > easier. > > 4) There are things that some folks across the country have done to > improve their area of the map... would be good to share practices more > broadly, in a Canadian context. > > Of course all of these can be done in a private organization (eg like > Mapbox), but I feel that building an organization to represent the broader > community would be more beneficial in the long run. > > My 2c. > On 2017-09-28 08:19 AM, Brian Bancroft wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > It seems like an interesting idea. I've been travelling a bit lately, and > I've found there's a lot of people out there who don't know about OSM where > the platform is exactly what they need. > > Would a robust OSMCanada spread the Gospel beyond the cities? Would it > seek to incorporate local GIS imports on the map with legal support and > task management? > > Do we know what an incorporated OSMCanada would do that the informal > association of really nice and diligent people can't do on their own? > > I won't be making SoTMUS this year, but I'd love to hear more about what > your aims are with this venture, and the problems you and others believe > (or know) it would solve through incorporation and (possibly?) sweet > government handouts. I'm guessing that these are the questions you want to > crunch out while you're at the gathering of interesting people. > > Best wishes and good luck with this endeavour, > > Brian > > > > > *From:* jwhelan0...@gmail.com > *Sent:* September 28, 2017 7:06 AM > *To:* scr...@gmail.com > *Cc:* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Canada & State of the Map US: Oct 20-22 > > I hadn't heard of them and I'm in Ottawa but there again I'm not very > sociable. I question why such a decision would be made out of the country? > > Does it matter if someone creates a not for profit Canadian corporation? I > think it would have to change its name though there have been discussions > recently about the use of OSM in names. > > Cheerio John > > On 27 September 2017 at 21:59, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 2017-09-27 05:49 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Are any Canadian folks going to State of the Map US October 20-22 >> > https://2017.stateofthemap.us/ >> >> Nope. Wish I could afford it. >> >> > During the conference, I would like to have a discussion about turning >> > the informal https://www.osmcanada.ca/ into a not-for-profit Canadian >> > corporation. >> >> I'd be opposed. Who are osmcanada? They don't represent me. Last I heard >> it was an informal group of mappers in Ottawa. What would the non-profit >> do? How would it justify its status? Would it be attempting to be an >> OSMF Chapter? >> >> Stewart >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing > listTalk-ca@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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