There has been some informal talk about when the elections are coming up.
I think with SOTM this year, things have been more focused on that than the
elections.
I'm not a member of the board, although I am running this time around, but
this is my understanding of the questions:
- Where are the financial reports?
- The secretary most likely has these, if they are published, I'm not
sure how current they are
- What assets does the Chapter have? e.g cash, investments, servers
and other hardware
- The cash number would probably be in the financial report, there are
servers and some schwag
- Who administers the server resources? (Ian and ?)
- I believe that Ian is doing at least 90% of this
- Will administration of the servers change after the election?
- I think Ian is pretty set on doing this, but if he isn't on the new
board, we may want to have him bring someone else up to speed
- What are Chapter servers being utilized for now?
- This is a very good question, I think it's mostly imports and bots,
but I really don't know
- What are the ongoing operations and maintenance costs for the
servers?
- These are pretty minimal right now, this should also be answered in
the financial report
- What projects are going on now or will be started after the
election,
- There are a number of subgroups that are all linked from the OSM US
Chapter page on the wiki
-
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States
- and what are the financial commitments?
- I'm not sure on this, it would be on the financial reports as well
- How many members are there?
- I believe it to be 25ish
- Has the Technical, Education & Student Outreach or US Tagging
working groups ever met?
- The groups as a whole haven't, but each board member is responsible
for one or more groups, and the board members voice the group concerns
I hope my view of these situations at least gets some people talking on this
subject. I don't know if my answers are 100% right, but it should be enough
to get the ball rolling on these issues.
--
Jim McAndrew
@JimmyRocks
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote:
> > I'm having trouble finding any information about the elections for the
> > OSM US chapter,
>
> The 2010 election was held in August, by email. So it's probably a
> bit late this year.
>
> Minutes from meetings since March, if any, are missing from
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Call_Minutes
>
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