Andre, I support this move. It is important to have an organization so we can release press releases, lobby government/NGOs, receive donations, etc. I also assume that this organization will own the domain names we have acquired. I also volunteer to be a founding member, if you need more of those. I'm in London (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.514540&mlon=-0.181375&zoom=16), but the Phil embassy is less than half an hour away, so I can get stuff notarized (hopefully not too many papers as they charge £18 for a signature and a stamp - per document! total ripoff if you ask me!). I am considering to get more involved in the OSM community here too. I happen to live only a short(ish) walk from the place where this whole thing originated - University College London. I have to say London is pretty road complete, but I have still managed to make some corrections here. And if any of you guys are venturing to this part of the world, don't hesitate to let me know. It's "fairly" expensive here and some local knowledge can save you a fortune :) Ronny.
Andre Marcelo-Tanner wrote: > Sending this to the list for reference, sent it out to all mailing list > contributors since Dec 2009 to get their opinion on this current topic. > > --------------------- > > Hi, > > I am contacting you in regards to OpenStreetMap in the Philippines. In > case you don't know me yet, my name is Andre Marcelo-Tanner, I am from > Enthropia Inc., a company in the Philippines which is helping OSM > Philippines grow. Since we found that you are an active contributor to > OSM in the Philippines, we wanted to get your opinion as part of the > community on a very important issue: > > "The formation of a formal legal entity to represent OpenStreetMap in > the Philippines" > > There is some starting discussion on the mailing list already at > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-May/000877.html > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-May/000879.html > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-May/000883.html > > We would greatly appreciate comments, even a simple yes or no from each > member of the community as we know this is a community project and thus > the community should always have a say in everything. > > Please send your replies to talk-ph@openstreetmap.org so that the > discussion will be public and everyone can join in. > > Thank you very much for your time, > > Andre Marcelo-Tanner > Enthropia Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
