Advisory Board/Communication

Advisory Board members communicate via a dedicated mailing list. Unless and until the Advisory Board itself determines otherwise, discussions in the Advisory Board are private.

However, to ensure transparency, the OSMF Board of Directors will publicly minute, in their board meeting minutes, any communication sent to, or received from, the Advisory Board members. You can find an overview below.

2018

Year-Month	Communication initiated by	Topics
2018-10	Facebook (Gold Corporate Member)	Enquiry about whether OSMF could help Corporate Members by receiving funds on behalf of the regional SotMs and transferring en masse. This would make sponsorship a whole lot easier, as it is currently difficult is getting funds to regional SotMs, because of procurement system requirements. A handling fee for the administrative overhead could be added.
2018-10	OSMF Board of Directors	The AB members have been asked for input on the design of the new Microgrants program.
2018-08	OSM UK (Local Chapter)	OSM UK informed the AB that they will respond to the UK Geospatial Commission's call for evidence, which "encourage(s) responses from the geospatial industry and beyond to help set the UK's future geospatial vision". The call for evidence closes on 24 October.
2018-07	State of the Map Working Group	The public SotM 2018 online registration list was sent to the AB members.
2018-07-28	Apple (Gold Corporate Member)	Some AB members had a meeting during State of the Map 2018, and spoke briefly about their own activities and the Welcome Mat project.
2018-07	OSM UK (Local Chapter)	Shared some updates about their Annual General Meeting in Manchester, which was combined with a mapping party. This was a joint event with Open Data Manchester (an ODI Node).
2018-05	OSMF Board of Directors	Consultation on the content of the Welcome Mat draft.
2018-04	State of the Map Working Group	Supporting the first State of the Map (SotM) conference in Oceania, which will be a joint FOSS4G and SotM event. It is backed by a non profit spatial industry body (Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute) and will be held in Melbourne, Australia, 21-24 November 2018.
2018-03	State of the Map Working Group	Call for venues for State of the Map 2019.
2018-02	State of the Map Working Group	Scoring the State of the Map 2018 scholarships.
2018-02	Licensing Working Group	Forwarded the General Data Protection Regulation draft - discussion.
2018-03	State of the Map Working Group	State of the Map 2018 updates.
2018-01	OSMF Board of Directors	Invitation to contribute to the draft of the Welcome Mat to Organisations.

2017

Year-Month	Contacted by	Topics
2017-12	State of the Map Working Group	Asked for input on the State of the Map 2018 sponsorship packages.
2017-11	Data Working Group	Sent the Directed Editing Policy and invited questions or comments on osmf-talk.
2017-10	State of the Map Working Group	Discussion about sponsoring multiple SotM events.
2017-08	OSMF Board of Directors	Asked for input on the Welcome Mat to Organisations.