Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2021/05/25

Call to Order

Present

• Diane
• Jubal
• Minh
• Maggie (ED)
• Martijn (departed 1:30 MDT)

Absent

• Dani (expected absence due to OSMF meeting)

Old Business

• Approval of the April Minutes

Updates

• ED Update
  • OHM announce draft ready to go
  • Government pilot announcement
    • June 8th fed geo day talk
    • Executive round table - open source mapping keynote panel
    • Greg Matthews, Jim McAndrew are involved
  • Mapping USA Report
    • Good feedback
    • Airmeet
      • A few hiccups, but worked well
      • OS Geo / OSMUS partnership may continue
      • We still have our smaller account
    • Made ~ $8000 with 2 month ramp up time
    • Much better than “hop-in”, which is really restrictive
  • Summer Work Priorities - quick summary
    • U of AZ reconnection in August for next spring planning
      • March - likely will have allowances for more than 100 people
    • TeachOSM afterschool program
      • Teacher map - would be good to build one
    • Community Master Program
      • Grant funding - Nellie is focusing on this
    • First blog post on Government pilot
    • Mappy hours - one each for June and July

New Business

• n/a

Open Discussion

• Map renderer project
  • Project that’s been on the back burner
  • Line up collaborations now
  • Should we self host?
  • Potential offer of hosting from U of AZ - follow up
  • Getting the EWG (engineering working group) going will help
• Credits at Amazon
  • Offer to have the credits we’d like, but we need a good estimate and USE it
  • Host OSMF tiles
• Charter Projects
  • Posting application announcement this week
  • Expected feedback return as long as 3 months

Next Meetings

• Not discussed

Adjournment

1:38 MDT

Brief meeting due to juxtaposition with Mapping USA conference