Thankful to be facilitating the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) - Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) Sub-committee for OSMF Affiliation Models (wow that’s a long name! 😅 )

✍ Documentation including volunteers list and meeting notes are in the OSM Wiki.

🥡 highlights:

1. 🤝 Last Saturday, we had our first volunteers meetup! About 14 people joined the call and we focused our session in getting to know each, and providing clear guidance and space for questions regarding the sub-committee’s goals, volunteer roles, and what to expect

2. ✈ Today, co-leads meet to get to know each other and to set expectations

• Co-leads expressed their enthusiasm to lead teams and identified support needed (e.g. clarity on role, resources, tasks to undertake, time commitment etc)
• Co-leads are: Pilot (be the leaders), Support (their co-leads and team members), and Engage (facilitate within their team)

🎯 Next steps

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I was thinking of sharing my experience and reflection for my second year as an OSMF board member, like I did in my first year, then thought, it would be better and greater to write it with my co-board members.

Together with my 2024 fellow board members, Craig, Dani, Mateusz, Roland and Sarah, we are grateful to share our Collective Board Report for the 2024 Year of the OSMF.

In this collective report, we share and document what happened in 2024, celebrate achievements, be transparent about our challenges, and recommend improvements to progress OSMF mission.

I’d like to also mention the collaborative process and inclusion of diverse perspective that we put in our work together as a Board and documented in this written report.

I love this excerpt from the Collective Power Playbook:

“By working together, we can achieve more and benefit more than alone. Collective power means shared ownership of outcomes, lessening the likelihood of failure and benefit for many rather than the few.”

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Personal reflection

When I decided to run for OSMF Board in 2022, my main agenda were to improve representation and ensure that community agenda is at the table. Looking back, I put four focus areas in my manifesto, and shared updates for and shifting prioritization after my first year as board member.

This year, as part of the Board, I focused on the OSMF Membership Campaign, being the Board liaison to the Membership WG, and revising State of the Map (SotM) pages.

Along the road, I went through a major life change and so I needed to deprioritize and shift focus again. I decided not to re-run in the Board, and continue to contribute to the SotM and LCCWG.

My hope for the OSMF is continue to push for gender and geographic representation and inclusive participation in leadership spaces as well as increase transparency and commitment to open collaboration among its board, members and the community.

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Read: The 2024 Year of OSMF: A Collective Board Report

Personal note and acknowledgement

The Open Mapping Women Awards 2024 was inspired by the 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗽 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 where we recognized community champions across Asia. Of’course, this would not also be possible without the brains and heart of the wonder HOT Community Working Group members, and the amazing women in our open mapping community.

I would also want to thank my DEI Champion, friend and beb, Mikko Tamura, for instilling in me that why don’t we recognize every nominations? There may be some unsung heroines or leaders we don’t know globally or have just one nomination, but their impact goes beyond that.

I hope we can continue celebrating and recognizing women in our community!

(Note: Took me 8 months to write something about this. But hey, do you know that International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrate every March 8? And yes, just want to make that connection with 8 month delayed posting lol. Sorry for the very delayed update! 🥹)

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Key highlights: We gathered and amplified 🎥 10 community events through the IWD 2024 OSM wikipage, 🏆 recognized 70 women and 33 communities and projects through the HOT Community WG’s Open Mapping Women Awards 2024, and 5️⃣ women champions shared inspirational messages about their journey, reflections, challenges and hope for the open mapping community: Carrol Chan, Bafamodei Hopeful, Chisom Okwuchi, Rabina Poudyal & Sandra Lucía Hernández Zetina 🙌

Under my [former] role as Online Community Engagement Lead at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and as part of the HOT Community Working Group, this year, we organized two initiatives:

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Personal note

Sorry for the very delayed posting! 🥹

🎉 I can’t express how overwhelmingly grateful I am to everyone who made this idea a reality. ✨ Your passion in making the best map OpenStreetMap, and building inclusive communities is unstoppable. ❤️‍🔥

Let’s make the #OpenStreetMap the best and most inclusive space for all ✨🗺️

=Arnalie

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Key highlights: We are happy to share the accomplishments of the 2024 OSMF Membership Campaign: 1) ~ 392 sign up’s from March, most of them were through the Active Contributor Membership Program; 2) there are now members in 16 new countries!; 3) Four (4) countries made 15+ new members: Libya, Niger, Nigeria and Colombia; and 4) one of our team leads, Priscovia, became part of the Membership Working Group (MWG).

In our effort to grow and diversify OSMF memberships, early this year, we ran a 3-month long OSMF Membership Campaign with volunteers from all over the world.

I thought that the new year is the best time to encourage contributors to become OSMF members by spreading awareness about OSMF membership and the Active Contributor Program. The OSMF Membership Campaign Drive idea came up when a community member from OSM Africa asked about the membership make up.

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With my State of the Map Working Group - communications hat 👒 , one thing that really put a smile on my face is checking the stats of scholarships given! 😍

Quick stats re scholars from the OSMF SotM WG & Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team #HOTOpenSummit Travel Grant Programs:

• 💻 10 online scholars
• ✈ 50 in-person scholars
• 🌍 🌎 🌏 from 27 countries
• 💛 💜 24 women : 36 men
• 1️⃣ 80% attended their first #StateoftheMap conference!
• plus 29 🎟 were given for free!

I cannot express enough how amazing it feels to see this stats. As someone who got exposed more to OpenStreetMap community after attending her first global SotM conference six years ago (my diary here), this gave me much hope and encouragement that we’re building an inclusive map and community 🗺 🤝

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In 2 March 2024, various OSM contributors and community members/leaders gathered together for the Local Chapters and Communities Congress! It was my pleasure to share a short update about HOT where I work as an Online Community Engagement Lead.

My slide presentation is here. Recordings are now uploaded in Youtube :)

Just a point to make that I shared about the HOT and its community, and not the HOT as an org. HOT Annual reports are available here.

How to get involved in HOT?

There are three general ways to get involved with HOT:

1. mapping in your own time,
2. participate in a HOT Working Group/s, and
3. contribute to tech.

So how do we engage with the community / contributors at HOT?

Since lots of different community members and leaders were there in the Congress, I took the opportunity to share and highlight how we foster a collaborative and inclusive space in HOT and channels

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my prolonged OSM diary about my experienced as an OSMF board member. Apologies for the delay!

Some background and tips to prepare as a board member

I joined the OSMF Board in Dec 2022 and this is my first time to hold a board member position! You can check my manifesto and answers to board election questions. I’d like to go back to this to check my progress and what needs to improve.

Since it is a new role, it really is intimidating at first! Even though I have talked with other open community and geo board members, it is different once you are in!

Some of the best tips I got are:

• Talk with leaders and people you know who have board member experience, learn from them and would be good if they can support / mentor you :)
• There is a free board member essentials available online (e.g. this Nonprofit Board Essentials from disasterready.org) so better try it and have an assessment of you board member potentials (don’t get too pressured, you will learn as you go!)
• Be a board member while you still have the time and capacity :) I am a full time mother and working woman so it was a hard decision to make; but then I realize, if I want to be a board member, I’ll better do it now since I have the capacity and interest! :)
• Two years seems like a long time but not really! You will have ideals and goals so better make that best out of it!
• Also remember, change takes time. Don’t overfrustrate yourself ;)

What happened in 2023, then?

Last year came by so fast. I am not so proud of what I have accomplished as a board as I have had some health challenges. It was a learning experience (the success and failures) for me!

With support from fellow board members, working groups, and community members, in 2023, we have accomplished:

1.Local Chapters Application revisions

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Providing updates! The OSM Wiki of the OSMF Membership Drive Campaign 2024 Plan is in the wiki: osm.wiki/OSMF_Membership_Drive_2024

We will also provide updates and have a space for feedback in the Community Forum using this thread: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/updates-osmf-membership-drive-campaign-2024/109280

First Volunteers Meetup - 3 Feb

After a successful and overwhelming response on the Call for Volunteers, we held our first volunteers meetup last 3 Feb!

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Credit: Photos from UPRI Youthmappers

Had so much funnn and so mappy from last Saturday’s OpenStreetMap Philippines’ 2024 Year-Starter mapping party #OSMPHarin2024* !

THANK YOU for everyone who has participated, and spent time with us and for mapping!

OSM PH community members’ aspirations

For introduction and icebreaker, our wonderful host (Jikka) asked us to introduce ourselves and share our aspirations for the 2024. Since some participants are new/beginner to OSM, aspirations can be personal and/or OSM-related.

From learning how to swim, graduating this year (lots of them are students from UPRI), healthier lifestyle (more sleep, eating on time and exercise) to growing the community and being more involved in OSM, we are really aspiring this year! Hope to go back to this and see by end of the year!

OSM field mapping and mobile tools

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THANK YOU FOR JOINING our Communications Skillshare Series!

I had fun organizing and participating in these comms skillshare sessions!

Comment if you have attended or watched the sessions! Let’s level up those communications skills this year! :D

You can rewatch the recordings here

User-Friendly Website Design with Brazil Singh

Brazil is currently the President of Youthmappers Chapter at Eastern University of Bangladesh. He shared his expertise and experience in creating user-friendly website design using WordPress. He presented theoretical and step-by-step guide on how to create a website. This webinar was inspired by his passion to support Youthmappers chapters to design their own website.

Links:

1. feedback and comments
2. recordings
3. slides

Also shoutout to Eka Diweti who hosted the webinar session! PS. I enjoyed listening to Eka! She said she was nervous but her voice was so calm and professional (watch the recording to listen!) :)

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Hi community!

Firstly, I would like to thank Chisom Ejeh for his efforts and chairing the CommunityWG 09:00 UTC/ Early session for the past almost 2 years! Chisom will no longer be available to be our chairperson due to conflict in work schedules and the CWG meeting. Let’s all thank Chisom for his service!

With this, we are looking for a new chairperson for 09:00 UTC/ Early Session for CommunityWG!

Note: Current chairperson for 17:00 UTC / Later session is Benedicta <3

Why become a CommunityWG Chairperson?

You will have the opportunity to connect, collaborate with and facilitate a diverse and talented set of people from the humanitarian open mapping community! You get to also sharpen you communication, networking and facilitation skills that can support your professional development!

What is the role?

Essentially, the role of CommunityWG chairperson is in two folds:

*Engagement

• Engage with communityWG members and encouraging/reminding them to participate and attend the meetings and events
• Ensure that communitywg meetings and channels (loomio, slack, matrix, mailing) remain an inclusive and healthy environment for everyone, following the HOT Code of Conduct

*Administrative

• Ensure that meeting notes and documentations are organized and readable
• Ensure that community shoutouts and agenda are filled and open for everyone to add

Who are we looking for?

• Required: Active member of HOT Community Working Group and/or a HOT voting member and must have participated in the meeting at least twice and/or participated in community channels (slack, loomio, matrix, mailing list) *A deep passion and commitment to humanitarian open mapping / OpenStreetMap/ open data/ humanitarian or development work / community development *Working fluency in English; non-native English speaker is very welcome!

Are you interested?

Please comment on this diary, loomio thread or email community[at]hotosm[dot]org your name, experience and motivation statement to apply!

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Today, I celebrate a leader, mentor and a friend, Angela Teyvi.

As the Mentorship Month (January) come to a close, the HOT Community Working Group Mentorship Program Team would like to honor our mentor and team lead, Angela Norvi Teyvi, whose passion have sparked and made ideas come to life through the Mentorship Program.

About the HOT CommunityWG Mentorship Initiative

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I would like to congratulate and welcome OSM Belgium for being the newest (and returning) OSMF Local Chapter!

Thank you to Joost, Ben, Jonathan, Thierry and OSM Belgium community for your contributions in spreading the awareness, educating/training people and sharing the good news of OpenStreetMap!

Learn more about OSMF Local Chapters:

• https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters
• Handbook for becoming a Local Chapter
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Application documents to submit

If you are interested in becoming a local chapter, and for questions and concerns, please comment in the community forum thread: Local Chapters: What To Know and How to Join or email local@osmfoundation.org.please email local[at]osmfoundation[dot]org :)

UPDATE AS OF 31 JAN

Hi community, I am greatly humbled by your overwhelming response! Thank you for your interest and volunteering to support our Membership Drive Campaign this Q1 of 2024!

I have scheduled a meetup this Saturday, 3 February at 11:00 UTC.

https://osmcal.org/event/2632/ https://osmcal.org/event/2632/

Please click ATTEND and answer the sign up form so we know which role you are willing to help 🙂

You can also input your email address so I can send the direct cal invite or you can click the ADD TO CALENDAR.

Important notes:

• You need to be logged in to your OSM Account to be able to answer the sign up form 🙂
• If you can’t make it, the session will be recorded and I will share it here as well as the meeting notes.

If you have any questions, please send it here! 🙂

Agenda: 1. Hello and Welcome 2. About OSMF and the Membership Drive 3. Timelines 4. Roles and tasking 5. Questions and comments 6. Any Other Business (AOB) 7. Actions and next steps

Meeting notes

See you!

ORIGINAL POST

Hi community,

wearing my OSMF Board hat and in our aim to grow and diversify OSMF membership, I am happy to initiate a Membership Drive/Campaign this first quarter of 2024!

Objectives:

• Promote OSMF memberships (normal, associate, active contributor) with support from OSMF Communications WG
• Provide general stats on membership make up (per region / per country)
• Collaborate with regional/national community leaders especially in regions/countries where OSMF membership is low

With this, I am looking for volunteers and campaigners to be part of this initiative:

• Mapmakers / comms volunteer/s who can help visualize membership make up and design Call to Action posters/pubmats
• regional/national community leaders/promoters who can help us in this campaign

Are you interested?

Please comment on this diary or this thread in the community forum if you have time and are happy to help! :)

Thank you!

=Arnalie

Last week, we celebrated the 4th Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) as well as State of the Map Asia 2022. I finally get to physically meet and interact with open data, open source, open mapping and Openstreetmap advocates and contributors after the pandemic. I will write more about my experience in another entry.

In this diary, I would like to honor a person whom I have never physically met but have made a huge difference in my career - one of the pioneers of GIS in the Philippines, the founder of PhilGIS.org and an open geodata advocate who showed compassion to a young beginner mapper / aspiring GIS Specialist (me), Sir Alejandro “Al” Tongco.

Thank you Pista ng Mapa x SotM Asia organizers for remembering his work through the Tatak OSM PH Award :)

Sir Al Tongco’s Tatak OSM PH Award, photo by Ms. Janjan Orano

PhilGIS.org : The first open geoadata source in the Philippines (that I know of)

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Version française ci-dessous / Versão portuguesa abaixo / Versión en español a continuación

Sharing here the results and finding of the Project: [Language] Localization as an Inclusion and Participatory Enabler that I shared last year: English / French / Portuguese and was able to present remotely at State of the Map 2022.

You can watch the recording here (in English): SotM 2022 page (with link to English slide presentation / Youtube (with English captions)

Conclusion

The findings of this project are not sufficient to create a self-sustainable localization strategy. The next section highlights key takeaways - challenges, opportunities and recommendation that can be put into action for future localization projects.

Key takeaways

Challenges	Opportunities
No known accurate machine for certain languages. e.g. Tiếng Việt	Collaborate with existing network - e.g. Community <> Industry
We were not able to provide a list of available resources	Maintain a list of available resources to translate to help contributors target resources that will be valuable to translate for their communities.
We translated a resource that cannot be used in the future e.g. Open Mapping Grants	Focus on evergreen or evolving resources
Technical Barrier	Provide onboarding on the use of the translation tools
Time Commitment	Provide value and recognition to contributors
No concrete plan on how to measure impact of localized translation to the communities.	The project should have a more robust approach to evaluating impact plans (i.e. how to monitor, measure and evaluate impact) and should be aligned with your organization’s MERL approach.

Translation workflow

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Hello! The humanitarian open mapping community WG held a skillshare session on writing your OSM Diary and editing the OSM Wiki: recordings are uploaded in Youtube :)

Did you know… you can leave “Location” blank and you can only delete a published diary with the help of a moderator? Moderators can also hide diaries and diary comments (thanks, mmd from the comments!). :)

=Arnalie

Hello! We are planning a skillshare session on creating OSM diary and editing OSM Wiki. The session will be in English.

Would you like to speak on either of those topic?

If yes, please feel free to comment on this diary, message me or comment on this loomio thread.

We’d appreciate your support! :)

Thank you!

Versões: English /

French /

HOT website (English)

Juntamente com as comunidades/contribuintes locais do Vietname, Madagáscar e Moçambique, e os Centros Mapas Abertos (Ásia-Pacífico, e África Oriental e Austral), tenho muito prazer em partilhar convosco a colaboração Projecto: Localização como um facilitador de inclusão e participação (também disponível em Francês, Português e Espanhol).

Resumo dos detalhes do projecto:

Contexto

A barreira linguística e a omissão do inglês coloca os não falantes de inglês em desvantagem sistémica nas comunidades de mapeamento aberto e nas actividades humanitárias de mapeamento aberto que o HOT tenta apoiar, resultando numa falta significativa de participação e impacto (Gayton, 2021) .

Motivação

Acreditamos que a localização linguística permitirá a inclusão e participação de grupos subrepresentados no mapeamento, diálogos e outras actividades humanitárias de mapeamento aberto.

Objectivo

O nosso objectivo é desenvolver dados de base para informar uma estratégia de localização*** auto-sustentável para colmatar a lacuna entre linguagem e acessibilidade dos recursos de cartografia aberta que servem as comunidades envolvidas no trabalho humanitário / de desenvolvimento (ver Países Prioritários do HOT).

Metodologia

Iremos realizar pequenas experiências (isto é, fluxos de trabalho de tradução, e compromissos) com comunidades locais para testar como a localização de recursos poderia funcionar nas principais línguas de 3 países prioritários: Vietname (Tieng Viet), Madagascar (francês) e Moçambique (português).

Linha do tempo (sujeito a alterações)

• June-Julho: brainstorming inicial, preparação e análise dos requisitos (completo)
• *Agosto - Setembro:** Compromissos com as comunidades como colaboradores nas experiências (completo)
• Outubro - Novembro:** Experiências/Translações em curso

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Portuguese /

HOT website (English)

Avec les communautés locales/contributeurs du Vietnam, de Madagascar et du Mozambique, et les centres Open Mapping (Asie-Pacifique, et Afrique de l’Est et Afrique australe), je suis très heureux de partager avec vous la collaboration Projet : La localisation comme outil d’inclusion et de participation (également disponible en français, portugais et espagnol).

Résumé des détails du projet :

Contexte

La barrière de la langue et le choix par défaut de l’anglais désavantagent systématiquement les non-anglophones dans les communautés de cartographie ouverte et les activités de cartographie ouverte humanitaire que HOT tente de soutenir, ce qui entraîne une participation et un impact manqués (Gayton, 2021).

Motivation

Nous pensons que la localisation de la langue permettra l’inclusion et la participation des groupes sous-représentés dans la cartographie, les dialogues et autres activités de cartographie ouverte humanitaire.

Objectif

Nous visons à développer des données de base pour informer une stratégie de localisation autonome afin de combler le fossé entre la langue et l’accessibilité des ressources de cartographie ouverte qui servent les communautés impliquées dans le travail humanitaire / de développement (voir [Pays prioritaires de HOT] (osm.wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Community/Terms_of_Reference#How_we_define_our_community_focus)).

Méthodologie

Nous allons mener de petites expériences (c’est-à-dire des flux de travail de traduction et des engagements) avec les communautés locales pour tester comment la localisation des ressources pourrait fonctionner dans les principales langues de trois pays prioritaires : Vietnam (Tieng Viet), Madagascar (français) et Mozambique (portugais).

Calendrier (sous réserve de modifications)

Juin-Juillet: Brainstorming initial, mise en place et analyse des besoins (terminé)

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