Local Chapters and Communities Working Group/Meeting minutes/2024-03-27

Meeting started at 12:10 UTC.

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Attendance

Present

• Adam - UK
• Arnalie - HOT
• Eugene - PH
• Geoffrey - UG
• Michael - UN

Not present

• Besfort - XK (with apologies)
• Anisa - IT (with apologies)

Administrative

• Minutes of previous meeting:
  • https://hackmd.io/@lccwg/Hkoxdj2hp
  • Approved
  • Eugene: Transfer of previous minutes to OSMF wiki is still ongoing
• Michael Montani (UN) interested to join LCCWG
  • Introduction: Michael created the first YouthMappers chapter: Polimappers at Politecnico di Milano; works with the geospatial group in the UN; works with a lot of communities in Africa and Asia
  • Approved with 4 ayes
    • Eugene to perform admin tasks to formalize Michael's joining
• Włodzimierz Bartczak (Polish LC) interested to join LCCWG
  • Adam to follow up by email
• Arnalie requested private gitlab repository for LC applications (LCCWG and Board to have access) to Dorothea; Dorothea forwarded to Grant; request is still ongoing
  • Adam volunteered to talk with Grant
• Tidy up GitLab c/o Adam and Eugene
  • Eugene to schedule a 1-on-1 with Adam in early April

Main agenda

Board updates (c/o Arnalie/Dani)

• Board liason: Dani?
  • Will be finalized in this month's 28 March Board meeting
  • Liaison acts as the Board's focal point for the WG
• Arnalie to provide update to the Board re LCC Virtual Congress in this month's 28 March Board meeting
• OSMF Membership Drive Campaign
  • Stats from Michael (MWG; sent 21 March):
    • New members Mar 5.-11. 7 (1 paying)
    • Mar 12.-18. 85 (9 paying)
  • Webinar coming soon
  • Arnalie asked help from LCCWG
• OSMF support to regional/national SotM - supporting local communities https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/18
  • Also opened with CWG (closed for SotM WG)
  • Deferred for next meeting in April

LCC Virtual Congress

• Happened on 2 March
• Post-congress tasks:
  • Post recording online
  • Send thank you email?
  • Draft a OSM Blog post
  • Request presentation slides from presenters (check notes for links)

LC How-to + application updates/status

• Open Applications + potential applications

OSM The Gambia

• Currently assigned to Anisa with Arnalie supporting
• Arnalie asked clarifications with no response yet
• Arnalie sent follow up email 27 March

UniqueMappers Network (Nigeria) application

• Dr. Victor followed up with LCCWG last Jan 4 by email
• Michael volunteered with Arnalie supporting as POC

umbraOSM (Brazil)

• Expressed interest
• Arnalie to copy LCCWG (Dani might be good focal point for this)

Others

• https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications#Expressed_interest
• Maybe LCCWG needs to be proactive
  • Arnalie okay to talk with Asian communities

Microgrants

• Board approved 2024 budget with 11210 euro for microgrants: https://osmfoundation.org/w/images/0/06/OSMF_2024_Budget_v2024-02-23.pdf
• Adam: copy the lead from EWG
• Geoffrey: suggest 4 grants at 2.5k each
• Use 2020 report
• Eugene to coordinate again with Joost

Any other business

• No other business

Next meeting

• Currently scheduled for 24 April 2024, Wednesday
  • Adam: alternate early for US and late for PH?
  • Arnalie: 12:30 UTC is okay if this is OK with Maggie

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Meeting ended 13:16 UTC.