Hi Michał, just some additional information. WMI organized the 2017 State of The Map conference in Milan. >
Clearly it was 2018 :) At the time of the conference I was working at Politecnico di Milano (that co-organized and hosted the conference) and I can say that this was a successful joint result, achieved after an already stable collaboration we had with Wikimedia Italia. Among others, we organized mapping events and also wrote research projects together - and Wikimedia Italia is doing this kind of OSM-related work also with other research institutions in Italy. In addition, since 2017 Wikimedia Italia has partnered with GFOSS.it and ArcheoFOSS in the organization of FOSS4G-IT, the annual conference that merges together the previous "geospatial" conferences of the 3 associations, including OSMit. After two editions (Genova <http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/foss4git_2017/> and Rome <http://foss4g-it2018.gfoss.it/>) we can say that this model works, since it brings together communities with (partially) different roots but with a lot to share. Next edition <http://foss4g-it2019.gfoss.it/> will be in Padova in February and the high number of submissions received is again a clear measure of the interest. In additions, I joined the last itWikiCon conference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ItWikiCon/2018/Programma> and there was an explicit request by Wikimedia to the OSM community to represent OSM at the event by submitting talk and proposals :) > While at the beginning we discussed about level of independence between > the two "area of interest", by the end of the day both Wiki* and OSM are > well interconnected and it's quite common to mix the topics when presenting > the projects to the wide audience. > Definitely! > > IMHO, having been one of the original proposer of WMI as OSM Chapter, the > coexistence is natural and as far as there isn't attrition between the > groups, will be a successfull integration in Poland as well. > > Regarding the other questions you are asking, I'm hopeful that someone from Wikimedia Italia can directly reply :) Marco
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