I'd hope the mission statement of any chapter would reflect the OSMF mission. In my judgment the key phrases to replicate are:
"3.1 OpenStreetMap Foundation is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing geospatial data for anybody to use and share." [1] and "The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international non-profit organisation supporting but not controlling the project." [2] >From these, I take that the OSMF is to remove barriers for mappers, to serve mappers and to do things for mappers that they as individuals would find more difficult than would a non-profit foundation. So you get to serve the mappers. Yay! Also, I think that residence / citizenship should be a complete non-issue for mappers. Even for US Chapter members I see residence / citizenship as only of passing interest. Perhaps of more interest for the chapter-board, but I'd prefer even that to be a non-issue. The Australian conflict of interest provisions are more to the point to my mind. Perhaps membership in other OSM local chapters should be a reporting requirement as well. This is not to say that a commercial mapping / geography interest is a drawback, or that membership in multiple local chapters should be forbidden. I think they should be discussed. Best regards, Richard [1] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_Association [2] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us