Hi everyone The final Articles of Association have now been available <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93bSUFIdERMNHZhM1U/view> for some weeks and have attracted no comments, so I think it's safe to say we can go ahead now and start the process of incorporation. We have 5 names for interim directors (i.e legally necessary for incorportaion but all standing down at an initial meeting so that an election can take place).They are me, Rob Nickerson, Adam Hoyle, Greg Marler and Robert Whittaker. (Others have indicated a willingness -if your name is not here don't worry - you're not being excluded from the operational organisation - just stand for election at the first meeting. Also if your name is here and shouldn't be let me know)
Thankyou to everyone who participated in getting us this far, it wasn't the most inspiring of tasks examining the fine detail of an Articles of Association document, and we'd all rather have been mapping. >From now on it's just background boring bureaucratic stuff getting the documents ready, legally reviewed, signed and off to Companies House and setting up a bank account. Suggestions for a preferred bank welcome. I'll keep everyone up to date as to where we are. Rather than wait for this process to complete I think we should start discussing what we want to do as an organisation: what priorities we should have, maybe a 100 day kickoff plan. To remind everyone, these are our agreed objectives: - increase the quality and quantity of data about the UK in OpenStreetMap; - improve and increase the size, skills, toolsets and cohesion of the OpenStreetMap community in the United Kingdom; - promote and facilitate the use of OpenStreetMap data by individuals and organisations in the United Kingdom; - promote and facilitate the release by organisations in the United Kingdom of data that is suitable for use in OpenStreetMap. We still have some organisational stuff to agree, like what should the membership fees be, what classes of members should there be; when where and how do we organise our first meeting; and so on and so forth Let's get some discussion going here and when we've accumulated enough comment, we can organise another conference call. Regards Brian
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