On 10/25/12 2:38 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
For specific reasons why OSM-US should care, a couple concrete things off the
top of my head are trademarks and promotion. OSM Foundation holds the
trademarks, like OpenStreetMap and the logo. The promotion space for events on
the OSM.org website (like the SOTM-US banner) needs a means for management.
Both of these things are going to be governed by Local Chapter agreements.
i don't mean to be a nitpicker, but OSMF has the trademark in some parts
of the world,
at least that's the case if this wiki page is up to date:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trademark
i should think the OSMF would want the US trademark. of course, if there
were a local chapter
agreement with the US chapter, we could act as the OSMF's agent.
as i understand it, the local chapters process ran out of steam for
various reasons. the US
chapter (and i'm not speaking as a board member, as i'm no longer on the
board, just the
executive committee[1]) would i think be happy to reengage in the process.
richard
[1] the brand new executive committee is where old board members get put
out to pasture
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