We've debated before whether WMUK should be supporting projects beyond the Wikimedia set of projects, and the answer has always been a resounding "yes". The WMUK constitution sets its charitable objects as "for the benefit of the public, to promote and support the widest possible public access to, use of and contribution to Open Content of an encyclopaedic or educational nature or of similar utility to the general public, in particular the Open Content supported and provided by the Wikimedia Foundation."
There's no doubt that OSM fits that bill and I hope that WMUK will find some resources to enable the attendance of some members at the Scotland conference. -- Rexx On 26 February 2015 at 15:33, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > The OpenStreetMap Foundation have taken the decision not to hold an > international "State of the Map" conference (their Wikimania) this > year: > > https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2015/02/25/openstreetmap-events-in-2015/ > > There will, though be a "State of the Map" in New York on 6-8 June: > > http://stateofthemap.us/ > > and "SotM-Scotland" in October: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2015 > > I wonder whether WMUK have thought about offering support for the > later, and making expenses available to allow chapter members to > attend, in order to foster greater inter-project collaboration? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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