Congratulations Lorenzo, congratulations Wikimedia Italia. It was indeed a long process, and I recall that this question came up - was it more than five years ago? I'm curious what the coming years will bring, and I trust that you will report back about whether it is a satisfying construction or not.
Best, Lodewijk On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Laurentius <laurentius.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > after a long process, today Wikimedia Italia has been officially > recognized as the Italian OpenStreetMap chapter! > > OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project that shares the same value as > the Wikimedia movement. It's not based on a wiki software and it's not > in the Wikimedia family, but from many points of views, it's the project > that is more similar to the Wikimedia ones; indeed, many wikipedians are > mappers also, and viceversa. > > Similarly to Wikimedia, there is an OpenStreetMap Foundation (based in > the UK) and there are national OpenStreetMap chapters. In Italy, the > OpenStreetMap community has been talking for years about the creation of > a chapter. Most people felt that it was important, but also that > founding yet another association was pointless. Associations are not > built only on projects, but also, and mainly, on common values and on a > common vision: Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap share both, and it's just > natural to work together. > > Wikimedia Italy officially started the process of becoming an > OpenStreetMap chapter in 2013 [1]. The association has supported > OpenStreetMap even before that (e.g., supporting the Italian > OpenStreetMap conference), and in the last two years, thanks also to the > work of many OpenStreetMap users that became members (and among them, > Simone Cortesi, OpenStreetMap volunteer since the beginning and WMI's > vicepresident), we have increased our efforts (as described also in > WMI's annual plan [2]). The recognition process has been quite long, but > today we've signed the chapters agreement, and now Italy is the second > country (after Iceland) to have an official OpenStreetMap chapter! (but > there are actually other unofficial chapters besides these two) > > Lorenzo > > [1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-July/127304.html > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikimedia_Italia/Proposal_form#OpenStreetMap > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>