Re: [Talk-it] Your experience with Wikimedia Italia being a local OSMF chapter

2018-12-14 Per discussione Aury88
I can answer from a simple mapper and wiki* contributor POV: I don't know what part of WMI expenses are related to OSM but I can say that from after Wikimedia Italia became a local chapter of the OSMF I saw an increase in the number of events and talks OSM related. Also I think companies and gov

Re: [Talk-it] Your experience with Wikimedia Italia being a local OSMF chapter

2018-12-13 Per discussione Maurizio Napolitano
Hi Micheal to what was said in the other answers I add some considerations: - if the supporters of OpenStreetMap decide to be recognized by the Wikimedia chapter, then they must also be active inside the chapter, otherwise the results will be poor - the Wikimedia chapters are very focused on the Wi

Re: [Talk-it] Your experience with Wikimedia Italia being a local OSMF chapter

2018-12-13 Per discussione Marco Minghini
Hi Michał, just some additional information. WMI organized the 2017 State of The Map conference in Milan. > Clearly it was 2018 :) At the time of the conference I was working at Politecnico di Milano (that co-organized and hosted the conference) and I can say that this was a successful joint resu

Re: [Talk-it] Your experience with Wikimedia Italia being a local OSMF chapter

2018-12-12 Per discussione Edoardo Yossef Marascalchi
Hi Michal, my 2 cents: Wikimedia became an OSM Chapter on mappers members request. To become chapter mapper members were requested to raise their hand and identify themself as OSM contributors. As far as I can remember more than 30 members were OSM contributor as well and more OSM contributors bec

[Talk-it] Your experience with Wikimedia Italia being a local OSMF chapter

2018-12-12 Per discussione Michał Brzozowski
Hi to all Italian mappers, The Polish OpenStreetMap Association is on the verge of dissolution due to lack of enough people at the last annual general meeting to run for the board and the revision commission. Depending on what the next general meeting will vote for in the January and what the att