John, I hope you don't mind, I am going to share this with talk-us. I think we would all love your input.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:15 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>wrote: > I borrowed and extended the Australian Wikimedia chapter's statement > of purpose, I thought others might find it useful as well. > > Statement of Purpose > OpenStreetMap Australia Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit > organisation, whose primary aim is to promote equal access and the > opportunity to participate in the collaborative creation of Free > Geospatial Data, especially data relating directly within the borders > of Australia. > > The purpose of the organisation is to: > > 1. organise and participate in educational and social events that > promote the development of Free Geospatial Data and related tools to > add, edit and manipulate geospatial data. > 2. increase public awareness of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. > 3. facilitate participation in the projects hosted by the > OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSM-F) > 4. develop resources to assist Australians in the creation and > maintenance of Free Geospatial Data > > Free Geospatial Data is geospatial data which can be freely studied, > applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose. See > freedomdefined.org/Definition for a more detailed definition. > > OpenStreetMap Foundation is a non-profit organisation incorporated in > the UK. It is the service provider of the openstreetmap projects > listed in full on the official OpenStreetMap Foundation site, the most > prominent being OpenStreetMap.org. > > _______________________________________________ > Local-chapters mailing list > local-chapt...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/local-chapters >
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