Local Chapters and Communities Working Group/Meeting minutes/2025-02-06

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Meeting started at 14:06 UTC.

Attendance

Present

  • Anisa - IT
  • Eugene - PH
  • Maggie - US (left 55')
  • Cristoffs - PL
  • Geoffrey - UG

Not present

  • Arnalie - PH (with apologies)
  • Besfort - XK (with apologies)
  • Adam - UK (with apologies)
  • Michael - UN (with apologies)

Guests

  • Héctor - ES (left 30')

Administrative

Main agenda

LCC Virtual Congress

2025 Congress

  • Program brainstorming
    1. Start with an LCCWG update & report out from community members (lighting talks)
    2. Update from the OSMF Board (if they can - 10-15 min)
      • Updates from the other working groups? DWG, EWG, CWG? (5 min each?)
    3. Subcommittee: Affiliation models update and discussion (30 min)
    4. Open discussion ideas:
      1. community building?
      2. fundraising?
        • how to work with governments
          • Cristoffs can talk about this (PL experience)
        • like-minded organisation collaborations
  • Action items:
    • Maggie to send an email to past attendees w/ program
    • WG members to announce and publicize the event as much as possible
    • WG to contact the WeeklyOSM
    • Anisa to add the event to OSMCal.org
    • Cristoffs to draft a pre-event blog post with Anisa after

2024 Congress

  • Recording of last year's event is online: https://www.youtube.com/@osmlccwg
  • Past action items:
    • Request and post presentation slides from presenters (check notes)
    • Confirm with Adam if he still have to create some notes regarding the OSM website Community page update

LC How-to + application updates/status

umbraOSM (Brazil)

OSM The Gambia application

  • Application docs — Assigned to Anisa / Arnalie
  • No update; still waiting for requested documents

UniqueMappers Network (Nigeria)

  • Application docs - Assigned to Michael
  • No update since the last meeting with applicant in 2024

Perkumpulan OpenStreetMap Indonesia

  • Application docs - Assigned Maggie/Geoffrey (supported by Alyssa)
  • Maggie: Review is nearly done, but we got caught up on the lack of open membership, which they plan to do but haven't yet

Affiliation model subcommittee

  • Action item: Eugene to follow up with Arnalie

OSMF ongoing 2025 budget cycle

  • Roland sent request last Nov 14
  • Not discussed much

Upcoming Events

  • FOSS4G OSM-IT 2024
    • Maybe report during LCC Congress as part of Italy's report
  • FOSSGIS: 26-29 Mar
  • State of the Map US 2025: June 19-21 2025
  • State of the Map 2025 (Manila, Philippines): October
  • State of the Map DRC: February 28 to March 2, 2025
  • SotM Japan 2025: TBA
  • SotM Europe 2025: TBA (Possibly in Ireland)

Any other business

Spain community updates

  • Héctor shared the following updates:
    • "We managed to contact the president and secretary of the Association, and set up an AGM. There, we elected the new board. We prepared the documents and sent them to the Spanish Interior Ministry for approval. We still don't have a response from them.
    • "We also started a call for new members, and got 60 members, woo! 28 of them attended the AGM on an online call.
    • "We also contacted Jornadas de SIG Libre (similar to FOSS4G, but for Spain), to see how can we create a national event together (SotM). They are happy with the idea, and we could do it together with their event in September https://www.jornadassiglibre.org/ . We would need to get the licenses, as we are not a local chapter."

Next meeting

  • Scheduled for Mar 6, at 14:00 UTC

Meeting ended 15:06 UTC.

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