Re: [talk-ph] supporting OSM Philippines and representing OSM Philippines to various orgs.

2009-01-28 Thread maning sambale
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

[talk-ph] supporting OSM Philippines and representing OSM Philippines to various orgs.

2009-01-27 Thread maning sambale
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

Re: [talk-ph] supporting OSM Philippines and representing OSM Philippines to various orgs.

2009-01-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
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

Re: [talk-ph] supporting OSM Philippines and representing OSM Philippines to various orgs.

2009-01-27 Thread Mike Collinson
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