Local Chapters and Communities Working Group/Meeting minutes/2023-04-24
Meeting started at 14:07 UTC.
Attendance
Present
- Adam - UK
- Maggie - US
- Arnalie - HOT
- Geoffrey - UG
Not present
- Anisa - IT
- Besfort - XK
- Eugene - PH
- Charles - ZM
- Jonathan - BE
- Jorge - PT
- Naveen - IN
- Patrick - CH
Administrative
- Minutes of previous meeting
- SKIPPED
Main agenda
Microgrants
- Joost sent a proposal to the board in February
- still awaiting decision from the Board & budgets
OSM.org landing page
- No updates
Trails engagement
- OSMUS: Session to be held at SOTMUS in June, present at SOTM Europe
Support the development of Microcosms [GL#7]
- Alpha testing - Adam has connected with Brian; might need UX support
- Maggie will talk with Brian at SOTMUS
LCC Congress 2022
- Blog posted! https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2023/03/20/local-chapters-congress-live-online-in-2022/
- Previous to-dos:
- ✅ Report on the event (blog + stats about attendance) [Maggie+Joost]
- ❎ 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
OSM website improvements for community engagement
- Mini-project to improve the User group wiki page linked from the Communities page. Suggestions: might be good to link osm community forum, community index, link to local chapters page (with how to apply etc)
- How do we improve the website / communities page - to improve engagement and discoverability?
Local Chapter how-to
- How-to document: https://hackmd.io/4NfuVm7tSKi3HIB3FKFrNQ
- No improvements yet
- Arnalie is looking at models to expand beyond Local chapters to include user groups - goal is end of May
- Discussion about revenue generating models for nonprofits and where the money goes - to support community building efforts
- This is in relation to Jean-Marc's document: https://hackmd.io/s8kgTLCKRKalOT1dQA16rg
Any other business
OSMF strategic plan process 2023
- Invitation to the community should be shared soon. Please provide feedback and disseminate to your communities.
- Proposal to clean up the GitLab list of issues
Meeting ended 14:48 UTC.