Any news, yet? On 26 February 2015 at 16:36, Simon Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks both. As you say, OSM work certainly does fit within our aims and > strategy. As we have a board meeting next weekend anyway I’ve added an item > to the agenda on resources for SotM. Obviously this is likely to be in the > context of broader discussion about our resources and how we select between > fundable projects. > > > > Cheers > > Simon > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of rexx > Sent: 26 February 2015 15:56 > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] No State of the Map this year; opportunities in > NY & Scotland > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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