OpenStreetMap
Make a community presentation at an OSMF Board Meeting
Posted by mikelmaron on 27 June 2021 in English.Are you part of a local chapter, or a local community, putting together an organized project, or developing software? We’d love to hear from you at the OSMF Board meetings. Please get in touch with us or comment on this post.
Over a year ago, the OSMF Board began inviting Local Chapters to present at our monthly Board meetings. It has been consistently great to hear about OSM activities around the world directly from the people involved. Very useful for the Board and those keenly interested in Foundation governance to get as full a picture as possible. Thank you to OpenStreetMap Italia, OpenStreetMap á Íslandi, OpenStreetMap France, FOSSGIS, FLOSSK, OSM Ireland, and OSM UK!
We realized there’s more voices we could hear from, and over the past two months, have opened the door to any OSM community and other projects like software development.
In May, Jochen Topf shared his experiences developing key pieces of the OSM software ecosystem. And this month, Feye Andal shared work across the incredible OSM-PH community. Next month, we have Sarah Hoffman coming to talk about nominatim!
There is so much happening across our amazing community. For the Board and others involved in core governance in OSMF, we want to have this front and center to our efforts. We appreciate the time everyone has spent to share their work with us, and encourage everyone else to signal your interest!
Discussion
Comment from @Österreich on 5 July 2021 at 05:54
I don’t understand why the term community or local chapter is used here.
Those involved in OpenStreetMap are mostly local people who map their immediate surroundings. There will be no community in such small spaces. However, these people probably lack a functioning shop window which they can embed in their website.
To speak of a great community, but to leave the individual contributors with their needs to Google Maps, I think it’s a shame
Greetings
Comment from mikelmaron on 5 July 2021 at 19:33
@Österreich you make a good point that we haven’t included individual mappers in this outreach. It’s not because they are not valued – recognize that a big portion of contributions comes from folks who find OSM and just do it. I think it would be really valuable to hear more from this part of OSM, and understand interests and concerns and views. I’ll reach out for a chat.