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

Some stats:

• 22 sign up’s from the registration
• about 10+ attendees

We had a brief overview about the OSMF, OSMF membership and the opportunities and ideas to grow and diversify the OSMF Membership.

We also discussed about the 2 volunteer roles that we are looking at: Mapmakers/visual designers team and Campaign Ambassadors. We have Geoffrey and Priscovia who signed up to lead the Campaign Ambassadors team, and Modo (+1 more!) to lead the visual comms designer/Mapmakers team

We had a consensus to use WhatsApp chat to coordinate, and provide updates via Community Forum and OSM Wiki.

First Volunteer Team Leads Meetup - 7 Feb

On 7 Feb, I met with the team leads of the 2 volunteer team (mapmakers/visual comms designer team and campaigner team): @ENGELBERT_MODO @Kateregga1 and @PRISCOVIA12 to set expectations and brainstorm how we can better mobilize our teams.

Timeline

For the most up to date timeline, please check the OSM Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMF_Membership_Drive_2024

What’s next?

1. Planning to have another volunteers meet this weekend (17 Feb) to align; hope for attendance from team leads and optionally team members!
2. Start preparing pubmats and designs in the next 2 weeks cc @ENGELBERT_MODO
3. Prep campaign and hope to launch early March!

The OSM Wiki of the OSMF Membership Drive Campaign 2024 Plan is in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/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

That’s all for now, we will update this thread as necessary. Thanks for reading!

=Arnalie on behalf of OSMF Membership Drive Campaign Volunteers Team