Local Chapters and Communities Working Group

One of the foundation Working Groups, the Local Chapters Working Group are responsible for running the process of setting up federated OSM-Foundation Local Chapters

Now that Local Chapters are up and running, the group has been restarted as a place to encourage the growth of local communities and set them on a path to maybe one day become a Local Chapter.

Who we are

• Rob Nickerson
• Ben Abelshausen
• Eugene Alvin Villar
• Stefano (sabas88)
• Clifford Snow
• Joost Schouppe

Former Members

• Hrvoje Bogner
• Emilie Laffray
• Douglas Ssebaggala
• Christian Quest
• Dimitar Dimitrov
• Jorge Gustavo Rocha*
• Hugo Holscher
• Gerhardus Geldenhuis
• Mikel Maron*
• Simon Poole
• Patrick Staehlin

People marked with a * are still following the local@osmfoundation address.

Get in touch

You can get in touch with the whole team at: local@osmfoundation.org

Discussions and announcements will be made via local-chapters@openstreetmap.org. You can subscribe to this OSMF Local-Chapters mailing list at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

We have a single chat channel you can reach via:

• Telegram
• Riot/matrix
• IRC (#osmcommunity on OFTC)

Meetings

We are currently restarting the LCWG after a long hiatus and expect to have a kick-off meeting some time in early March 2013. Details will be announced on the osmf-talk and local-chapter mailing lists.

Minutes

See Working Group Minutes#Local Chapters Working Group

Useful links

• Local Chapters page on the OSM wiki