On 9/15/2011 11:56 AM, Jim McAndrew wrote:
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.
SOTM was largely organised by OSMF and the working group with some funds
channeled through the US.
With the greatest respect to those involved, I think it's better to just
put the issue on the table that HOT took everyones time and not a lot of
progress has been made with OSMFUS. That was great for HOT, as you can
see, but OSMFUS needs people on the next board with the time to make the
progress it needs, if for no other reason than showing those upstairs in
Canada what we can do ;-)
Steve
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?
o 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
o The cash number would probably be in the financial report,
there are servers and some schwag
* Who administers the server resources? (Ian and ?)
o I believe that Ian is doing at least 90% of this
* Will administration of the servers change after the election?
o 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?
o 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?
o 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,
o 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?
o I'm not sure on this, it would be on the financial reports as well
* How many members are there?
o I believe it to be 25ish
* Has the Technical, Education & Student Outreach or US Tagging
working groups ever met?
o 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Josh Doe <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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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