Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-07-08 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 22:51, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I did send a message to a few from New Caledonia, so I'll see if I heard > back. > I got a few people reply with feedback that they thought it would be good to include New Caledonia. ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-06-15 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 at 13:31, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > But I personally agree that we need to reach out and canvass any local >> communities that may exist, for their thoughts. We do have some reach via >> existing OSGeo community, mailing lists, travel grant program, and other >> networks. >>

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-06-02 Thread Ewen Hill
Good morning, Perhaps a general clause in there to state that we strive to encourage local determination and to assist and support in this process within the bounds of the master agreement and to encourage all countries and regions to be both proactive and representative and not to

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-06-02 Thread Edoardo Neerhut
In situations where there isn't any existing representation currently, I would see an entity as helping generate that activity. If I was a new mapper/geospatial professional in any of those locations, I would feel more comfortable starting out knowing that there were existing networks/knowledge I

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-06-02 Thread Sebastian S.
What is the benefit of including these regions if there is no representation? (Based in the assumption that no one will claim representation) What about an opt in/out for these regions? If at a later point in time a separate chapter wants to form they should be able to. Or maybe the general

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-06-01 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 at 20:08, John Bryant wrote: > > Re: geographic extent, one of the definitions we've been using for other > purposes (eg conference travel grants) is the UN geoscheme for Oceania: > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Oceania > Interesting bit I

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-06-01 Thread John Bryant
Great questions... Re: geographic extent, one of the definitions we've been using for other purposes (eg conference travel grants) is the UN geoscheme for Oceania: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Oceania But I personally agree that we need to reach out and canvass

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-06-01 Thread Ewen Hill
Andrew John, Ed et al, The proposal looks good however do we need to discuss the inclusion of Hawaii and perhaps Guam as they may be more appropriate under a US auspices or is it best to use the UN definition that excludes a number of these to be succinctly clear what is in and what is not.

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-05-31 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 13:06, Edoardo Neerhut wrote: > Simon, you raise a good point! What do you all think is an effective way > to get this input? Reach out to people we know are active mappers in > Oceania and see if they would like their country to be represented? > > On Sat, 18 May 2019 at

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-05-26 Thread Edoardo Neerhut
Thanks for the effort you've put into this Andrew. Simon, you raise a good point! What do you all think is an effective way to get this input? Reach out to people we know are active mappers in Oceania and see if they would like their country to be represented? On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 21:18,

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-05-18 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 19:12, Simon Poole wrote: > I think my immediate and largest concern if I was reviewing the > application (which I am not) would be: Oceania isn't just about Australia. > I would expect nothing less from the OSMF. Have OSM communities outside of AUS (and NZ) even been

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-05-18 Thread Simon Poole
I think my immediate and largest concern if I was reviewing the application (which I am not) would be: Oceania isn't just about Australia. Have OSM communities outside of AUS (and NZ) even been addressed? While not totally cast in stone, there is an assumption that territorial chapters are

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-05-17 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hi All, As my role on the OSGeo Oceania board I've been drafting up OSGeo Oceania's application to become an OSMF Local Chapter, at the moment the application is still in the works but any comments are most welcome. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GAMY_pLAUMXe-PjJhQ4C4Eqvn2rq9xEt2mse3WexNxg/

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-03-05 Thread John Bryant
Maritjn, thank you, that would be much appreciated! Andrew Harvey is on our Board and will likely want to be involved in this as well, I imagine. There has been some talk about an OSM sub-committee of sorts, I suppose this will come in due course but thought it might become relevant to this

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-03-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
John — I used to be OSMF secretary and have guided multiple local groups through the OSMF LC application process. I am no longer on the board but know the current secretary, and am happy to help with the process if needed. Martijn > On Mar 4, 2019, at 8:41 PM, John Bryant wrote: > > Hi

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-03-04 Thread Vilppola, Ritva
lto:johnwbry...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:41 PM To: Graeme Fitzpatrick Cc: OSM-Au Subject: Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter Hi Graeme, thanks a lot for bringing it up, it's a good opportunity to share a work-in-progress. Yes, there is work going on right now, and apologies for not ma

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-03-04 Thread John Bryant
Hi Graeme, thanks a lot for bringing it up, it's a good opportunity to share a work-in-progress. Yes, there is work going on right now, and apologies for not making it more widely known... we're scrambling a bit to pull together both this and the 2019 conference, trying to get a number of balls

[talk-au] Local Chapter

2019-03-04 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
There was mention late last year of setting up a local Chapter https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2018-December/012227.html, but haven't heard anything further since? Just been doing some random browsing & found this

Re: [talk-au] local chapter stuff

2010-02-23 Thread Henk Hoff
Guys, It may be good to give also an update on the whole chapters thingy on this mailing list. First: the draft agreement you've been referring to is of the table. We had a good discussion within the OSMF board about the organizational structure of the Foundation. We concluded that this

Re: [talk-au] local chapter stuff

2010-02-19 Thread Liz
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, John Smith wrote: For those interested, here's the current draft released this evening: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/OSM_Local_Chapters_Draft_v0_3.pdf My concerns about this still haven't been addressed and it doesn't look like it will happen so I won't be at