Hello all, In the Virtual Mappy Hours held yesterday, the OSM Chair Allan Mustard had suggested that we go ahead with the formation of an Indian chapter and officially affiliate with the OSM Foundation. This enables us to use the OSM Trademark officially.
I thought I would start the thread on this list for people interested in this effort. I know that there is an active Telegram group going on, but I think putting things on the mailing list will help archive the effort and discussion that goes into formation of a Chapter. For future historians of the movement,this would be something akin to the Constituent Assembly discussions are to India today. On the chat yesterday, I had cautioned that India has had previous bitter experiences with running organisations wherein a Foundation manages the organisations or groups in various countries. We are seeing the effect of that in the Wikimedia movement in India. Naveen, also on this group, has first-hand experience with this as he was involved in the formation of the Wikimedia India Chapter. I hope that such previous experiences of the members here will help us avoid the pitfalls and help to form a much more stronger OSM India Chapter. In India, the experience has been that the introduction of an organisation leads to dis-organisation of the community. I hope we can stay in this together and for the long haul. Sincerely, Pradeep user:pradx on OSM
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