On 11/08/2009, at 11:29 PM, John Smith wrote: > > --- On Tue, 11/8/09, James Livingston <doc...@mac.com> wrote: >> From what I've read about OSM Local Chapters, we would >> have a local >> entity which is "federated" to the OSM Foundation. Which >> means that >> the local entity (e.g. OSM Australia, although it could be >> an existing >> mapping/GIS body not exclusive to OSM) can say they >> officially >> represent OSM in Australia, use the OSM trademark, have all >> of our >> members be voting members of OSMF, and the like. > > That's not what's currently on the wiki, they explicitly state being > a member of a local chapter doesn't make you a member of OSMF and > vice versa. > > Also no mention the the chapter itself being a member of OSMF. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters > > Automatic membership might have been suggested at some point by > someone but it doesn't look like it has been continued for various > legal/liability reasons etc.
Ah, that seems to have been updates two days ago, and a whole bunch of things are now different then they were before (in some cases, saying the complete opposite). I probably should have re-read the page first. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
