Re: [talk-au] OSMF Local Chapter discussions

2018-12-16 Thread FlashKiwi
Great email Andrew! Andrew makes some great comments and raises some very fair concerns. The key is participation, and if you have a passion for all things OSM in AU/NZ/Pacific then I really encourage you to be part of the process. Subscribe to the 

Re: [talk-au] OSMF Local Chapter discussions

2018-12-16 Thread John Bryant
Thanks Andrew! I'm hopeful this will be seen as a positive move, taken in the spirit it's intended - to enable and empower the OSM and open source geospatial communities to work together with common purpose. For this new organisation (OSGeo Oceania) to legitimately claim to represent the OSM

Re: [talk-au] OSMF Local Chapter discussions

2018-12-16 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Thanks for sharing Andrew. Sounds good to me! Thanks Graeme ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] OSMF Local Chapter discussions

2018-12-16 Thread Andrew Harvey
There is a movement at the moment on the FOSS4G Oceania mailing list, https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-oceania/, by the group who organised the recent FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference, looking to get a bit more organised through some kind of governance and organisation structure. Their

Re: [talk-au] OSMF Redaction bot working on Australia

2012-07-19 Thread Leon Kernan
Well, there goes the neighbourhood :-) (literally!) I didn't even realise it had moved from Europe to America yet. Thanks for mentioning it. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Arie Paap wildmy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I've been watching the progress of the bot on North America and it seems

Re: [talk-au] OSMF Fwd: license change map

2010-11-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: outcomes arent published back into the minutes.  Do the various working groups publish their own minutes or decisions, or do we just find out what they decide after the changes have taken place, such as the JOSM/Nearmap

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:12 -0800, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OSMF is a democratically elected body. Candidates welcome. I guess 2011's elections will take place at the start of July as usual. (Last year's election:

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread David Murn
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:30 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:12 -0800, Richard Fairhurst wrote: In 2010, OSMF transitioned from chair serves two year term and others serve one-year terms, to 1/3

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:30 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: [ ... ] Thanks for the explanation, someone else provided the simple two-year

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread 80n
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:12 -0800, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OSMF is a democratically elected body. Candidates welcome. I guess 2011's

Re: [talk-au] OSMF Fwd: license change map

2010-11-27 Thread David Murn
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:12 -0800, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OSMF is a democratically elected body. Candidates welcome. I guess 2011's elections will take place at the start of July as usual. (Last year's election: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM10/Election_to_Board ) Out

Re: [talk-au] [Osmf-talk] my views on the ODbL

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 05/12/2009 21:31, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: The proposed licence is not a benefit to Australians in my view. You have generously qualified this with in my view and I should point out that I disagree with all the force I can muster. I spent about two hours this morning writing a pretty detailed

Re: [talk-au] OSMF

2009-08-21 Thread Gordon Smith
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Matt Whitemattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: Liz wrote: Big flame war on the OSMF-talk list today and it didn't even need us Aussies to fuel it. If you are a member, please vote, it will make life easier for us all if as many potential voters as possible vote or

Re: [talk-au] OSMF

2009-08-21 Thread James Livingston
On 21/08/2009, at 8:16 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: 1. nominations open. 2. voting opens 3. nominations close (how can anyone vote if nominations aren't closed) 4. last minute registrations to vote 5. last minute call to vote (24 hours notice) Nomination closing after the voting had opened

Re: [talk-au] OSMF

2009-08-20 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 20/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: If you are a member, please vote, it will make life easier for us all if as many potential voters as possible vote or else we will hear for the next three years how the poll was 'fixed. This is one reason I've decided to take an active