Local Chapters and Communities Working Group/Meeting minutes/2023-02-27

Meeting started at 15:07 UTC.

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Attendance

Present

• Anisa - IT
• Arnalie - HOT
• Charles - ZM
• Eugene - PH
• Joost - BE
• Maggie - US

Guest

• Rachele - UN

Not present

• Adam - UK (with apologies)
• Besfort - XK
• Geoffrey - UG
• Jonathan - BE
• Jorge - PT
• Naveen - IN
• Patrick - CH

Administrative

• Minutes of previous meeting: Local Chapters and Communities Working Group/Meeting minutes/2023-01-30
  • Approved.

Main agenda

Microgrants

• Joost to send a proposal to the board

OSM.org landing page

• Joost to write a simple start of proposal
  • Maybe bring up this topic in the next Advisory Board meeting

Trails engagement

• Next step - everyone think on best way to coordinate/collaborate
  • OSMUS update:
    • https://www.openstreetmap.us/trails/
    • https://www.openstreetmap.us/2023/02/trails-pilot-update/
  • OSMPH mapathon: https://www.facebook.com/bahaghari.maps/posts/pfbid027Vkf1Qy1UQtXvzqjYdfpu8SUyUDHzxEPjKaUVU1RRGCUNuAc161znrUz3ZTDVda9l
• Maybe 24-hour mapathon in the northern hemisphere fall?

Support the development of Microcosms [GL#7]

• No news that the present people know of.
  • Maggie will talk with Brian

LCC Congress 2022

• No updates so far
  • Maggie and Joost to set a meeting for the communications
• Previous to-dos:
  • ❎ Report on the event (blog + stats about attendance) [Maggie+Joost]
    • Document started: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kORAv2J2SqplC--hRaA7UKSt0qrbrcJVV3FoCD0s8k4/edit)
  • ❎ Send thank you e-mail once the links are up (Maggie) & include ask to get more involved with LCCWG
  • ❎ Link to videos but they are wonky might want to redo

Update the OSM website to highlight Local Chapters [GL#14]

• Suggested to have a mini-project to improve the User group OSM wiki page linked from the OSM.org communities page. Suggestions: might be good to link osm community forum, community index, link to local chapters page (with how to apply etc.)

Local Chapter how-to

• How-to document initially drafted by Allan Mustard: https://hackmd.io/4NfuVm7tSKi3HIB3FKFrNQ
  • Eugene proposed that the WG adopt and improve this document
    • Approved to adopt
• Arnalie raised the issue about Jean-Marc's commercial activities requirements for LCs: https://hackmd.io/s8kgTLCKRKalOT1dQA16rg
  • Agreed that the WG will not address this document yet

Any other business

• No other business discussed

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Meeting ended 16:00 UTC.