There have been regular unofficial hangouts every month so far with Wikimaps and we've had a FOSS intern working on rendering with time tags that needs to be installed on the machine. The irc chatroom is rather quiet at the moment through.
I'm wary of creating a formal organizational structure until complexity warrants it. We've done ok so far to ride other people's organizations to get things done so far. Could we setup a google hangout before the holidays hit to sync everyone up? -rhw On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:30:21 -0800 > From: Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> > To: Tim Waters <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OHM] Moving Historical Geodata to the Web & Questions > about OHM Decision Making Process > Message-ID: > <caa1ffezuj7we3f0zoijw-y2wknaakwhyb68zofz3ngnru-c...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Chippy - > > Your timing and delivery are fantastic - thanks for this update! > > I don't think we have good answers to a lot of these questions (at least I > don't!), some of which are related to us (the OHM collective! : ) ) having > enough time individually or enough leadership or maybe even the right > organizational structure. Who knows? > > I'd love to hear what the list has to say about: > - Setting up more regular meetings again > - Setting up a non-profit structure focused solely on OHM objectives (I > believe this will help with grants) > - Tying in more closely with the Wiki folks > - Defining more structured organizational roles - e.g. grant writing, IT > ops, data recruitment, outreach, etc. > > I ask these pesky organizational questions because I think a simple "send a > message to the mailing list" type of instruction for outreach won't get us > moving where we'd like to go, as quickly as we might like to go. Plus, it's > not a reliable messaging service in that inquiries might go somewhat > unanswered. > > As for me, I've been a bit away due to personal / vocational reasons, but > I'm ready and eager to get back on it. > > To that end, I have meetings set up with David Rumsey and the NEH Office of > Digital Humanities next week, with the interest of getting feedback on > their thoughts about how to get things moving forward with a project like > OHM. > > I'll report back what I learn, but in the meantime, I'm curious what others > think. > > Thanks, > Jeff _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
