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 discussion.
Re: timing - I'd think we'd be keen to gain local chapter status as soon as possible after we form an entity (targeting end April), so perhaps we can aim to make a submission to OSMF in early May? This would likely help us build up the SotM part of FOSS4G SotM Oceania... Cheers John On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 08:07, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 rolling at once. > > The committee that organised FOSS4G SotM Oceania in November is in the > process of doing the legwork to form an entity. Right now, we are pulling > together a draft recommendation that we'll share with the community for > feedback. Aiming to have this draft complete by the 15th, and then open it > up to the community for a two week consultation period. Presuming that > leads to a recommendation to form an entity, we should have something in > place by the end of April. > > Forming local chapters of OSMF and OSGeo is one of the key reasons to do > this - also it will make it a lot easier to manage funds and sign contracts > when organising community events like the conference. > > Again, sorry for the lack of communication - we definitely intend to grow > this organisation, the immediate priority is to build a strong foundation, > and to do this we need to communicate. Hopefully we can catch our breath > shortly here and re-prioritise the engagement of the community. In the > meantime, what kinds of activities would you see a local chapter of OSMF > undertaking? > > Cheers > John > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 13:08, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Australia, >> which discussed the same thing back in 2010. >> >> Is any of that info still relevant? >> >> Thanks >> >> Graeme >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > >
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