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This is the official page for administration of the US Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Some of the US OSM community resources are found on the US OSM Community pages.
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How can you participate?
- Contribute to OSM through mapping parties, individual mapping and OSM editing, and local mapping events
- Join OpenStreetMap United States
- Join a working group
Board of Directors
The members of the 2011/2012 Board of Directors are:
- President: Richard Welty
- Vice President: Michal Migurski
- Treasurer: Randy Hale
- Secretary: Martijn van Exel
- At-Large: Jim McAndrew
The current board was elected in October 2011. See the Election sub-page for details.
Board members conduct private conversations using the us-osm-board Google Group.
Drafting of a mission statement was initiated by the previous board, see here. Please provide your comments on the discussion page.
Chapter meetings
The next board meeting will be on May 10, 2012. Chapter meetings typically occur on the second Thursday of the month at 5PM PT / 8PM ET via teleconference.
Preliminary Agenda for May 12, 2012
Conference Line
[Note:new number for May 12th call, old number is dead.]
Conference Dial-in Number: (605) 477-2100 Participant Access Code: 483134#
Previous Meetings
The minutes of previous Chapter meetings are here on the minutes page.
The annual business meeting was held on 10 November 2011. Preliminary minutes are on the minutes page.
Chapter activities
US State of the Map
State of the Map (SotM) is the annual OSM conference. The inaugural State Of The Map U.S. 2010 conference took place in August 2010, just one month after the international State Of The Map 2010 conference in Spain. Discussions are just beginning about the 2012 conference. Previous planning documents for the US SOTM are located here.
Working Groups
We need community members to step up for some working groups like those established by the | OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Community Events and Mapping Party Working Group (Including the "GeoBus" project)
Chapter resources
The Chapter has $5000 in server hardware and $2000 in promotional materials.
Servers
Servers are administered by Ian Dees, but he is working on documentation to allow others to assist in administration. The servers are currently used to host openstreetmap.us and TopOSM. Hosting costs are donated by visi.com and OSU's Open Source Lab.
Ian is working on setting up a rendering database as of 16 September 2011. His goals are:
- Near term: I'd like to get Richard's shields overlay rendering and start working with people interested in getting a US-specific rendering going.
- Longer term: I'd like to find storage for helping service aerial imagery, try to get another JXAPI instance going, and start implementing "alternative OSM APIs" for people interested in mapping stuff that wouldn't otherwise fit into OSM (e.g. historical maps, Burning Man, etc.) [1]
Server specifications can be seen on the Servers subpage.
Financial reports
The first financial report for 2010-2011 is being worked on as of 15 September 2011, and is expected to be published at the next member meeting to be held in the next few weeks or months.
Incorporation Certification
The US Chapter of OpenStreetMap is incorporated as of 19 April 2010. Our incorporation certification is here (.pdf).
Bylaws
Code of conduct examples
This is a work in progress, but a template under consideration is the Wikipedia code of conduct.
