Local Chapters and Communities Working Group/Meeting minutes/2021-03-22
LCCWG 2021-03-22 meeting
- Meeting started at 16:10 CEST
0. Attendance
Present
- Adam - UK
- Joost - BE
- Maggie - US
- Clifford - US
- Geoffrey - UG
- Jorge - PT
Not present
- Eugene - PH (with apologies)
- Anisa - IT
- Rob - UK
- Naveen - IN
- Patrick - CH
- Besfort - XK
- Charles - ZM
- Jonathan - BE
- Sophie - UK
1. Administrative
1.1. Meeting chair
Chairing by Joost again
1.2. Approval of the 2021-02-22 meeting minutes
Approved.
1.3. Previous action items
Items in bold are updates in status or new action items.
| Assigned | Item | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eugene | Work with OSM India to become an OSMF affiliate | Pended (GL#5) |
2020-02 meeting |
| Maggie, Clifford | Support the development of Microcosms | Ongoing (GL#7) |
2020-02 meeting |
| Maggie, Joost | Provide a tool for communities to welcome new mappers | Ongoing (GL#8) |
2020-04 meeting |
| Ben | Update OSM website to allow affiliated groups to message OSM users | Ongoing (GL#9) |
2020-04 meeting |
| All | Resolve overlapping OSMF and LC membership scheme | Ongoing (GL#11) |
2020-06 meeting |
| Eugene | Improve the affiliation scheme of the OSMF | Not yet started (GL#12) |
GL#5 |
| All | Develop/design local community website template/tool | Ongoing (GL#13) |
2020-09 meeting |
| Adam | Update OSM website to highlight LCs | Ongoing (GL#14) |
2020-10 meeting |
2. WG focus items
Per the Terms of Reference, WG members should work on the focus items.
2.1. Building local community cohesion
2.1.1. Support the development of Microcosms (GL#7)
No Change
2.1.2. Provide a tool for communities to welcome new mappers (GL#8)
No Change
2.1.3. Update OSM website to allow affiliated groups to message OSM users (GL#9)
No Change
2.1.4. Develop/design local community website template/tool (GL#13)
No Change
2.1.5. Update the OSM website to highlight Local Chapters (GL#14)
- Joost to ask advice from CWG
- Joost to update the wiki page as suggested on issue 15
2.1.6 Talking with local and national governements
- A lot of interest and activity in several chapters
- Suggestion: meeting of people involved in this to exchange experience
- Of note: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMapforGovernment
- Maybe a full day meeting; perhaps a series of talks and a workshop / birds of a feather.
- Could be part of the next LC Congress
- We will work on a talk at State of the Map together
2.2. Facilitating a global exchange of ideas
2.2.1. Moderation subcommittee
- They are using NextCloud, but needed a budget
- Felix from FOSS-WG started a trial, but with a set deadline
- First drafts available soon for review by an inner bigger group
2.3. Improving the Local Chapters affiliation scheme
2.3.1. Resolve overlapping OSMF and LC membership scheme (GL#11)
No Change
2.3.3. Improve the affiliation scheme of the OSMF (GL#12)
No Change
3. Other business
3.1 Budget
- Software development for local community website hosting tool/solution €1000 Eugene: Budget not needed if GitHub pages is the solution. Clifford: OSMF Microgrants can accept such funding for hosting; Rob: multi-year; Clifford says that Microgrants can be flexible in the future.
- NextCloud instance to keep our subcommittee afloat and keep using ourselves in the future. For the subcommittee especially the forms feature is needed.
Voted and accepted
Meeting ended at 17:15 CEST.