Setting-up a local chapter would be great on the long-term. What about on the short-term? Any ideas?
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Mike Collinson <m...@ayeltd.biz> wrote: > Maning, Eugene, Nick, > > I am cc'ing Nick Black for his info. He is my fellow OSMF board member who > is working on the structure and procedure for OSMF local chapters. It > certainly would be great to see a Philippines chapter forming; a very > vibrant community is developing and I think you guys are gaining a lot of > experience in getting local government and other data contributions that > we'd all like to know about. > > Mike > > At 01:33 PM 27/01/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > The OSMF has a plan on having local chapters, somewhat similar in style to > the Wikimedia Foundation's chapters. That's the only way we can represent > OSM in a legal and official sense. > > But basing on the currently ongoing plans of setting up a Wikimedia > Philippines chapter since 2007, I doubt that we can create an OpenStreetMap > Philippines organization anytime soon after the OSMF has approved the > policies for setting up local chapters. > > Then again, there are plenty of people in this mailing list that have > experience setting up SEC-registered companies. In Wikipedia, we are all > just a bunch of academically-inclined people. :-) > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM, maning sambale < > emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am receiving emails lately on how to support OSM Philippines. The > natural response I give is: join OSM, collect data, edit the database, > tell your friends about OSM Philippines. Do we need more support > other than what I mentioned? Do we need event sponsors, funds, free > beer? > > On another side of the coin, I also approach some orgs (particularly > LGUs) to support or provide data for OSM Philippines. The usual > response is: "we want to know more about your organization so we can > discuss it". Well, we don't have any formal org. What "legal" basis > can we represent OSM Phil to these organizations? Is anybody a member > of the OSM foundation? Perhaps we can capitalize on such affiliation. > > Any ideas? Or we just keep on mapping (me thinks we should). > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > > > -- > http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph