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

Within the next 2-3 weeks, we hope to progress on our goal to build a proposal as to how the OSMF affiliation scheme can be improved to accommodate less-formal user groups (ie unregistered local communities) and non-geographical/thematic groups, with the leadership of our co-leads.

📅 Next volunteers meetup will be 14 Dec, 15:00 UTC. OSMcal here.

Everything will be documented in the OSM Wiki and Community Forum Thread. More updates soon!