Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2021/10/25

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Call to Order

Present

  • Dani
  • Diane
  • Jubal
  • Maggie (ED)
  • Minh

Old Business

  • Approval of Sept minutes
  • Approving two year terms and term limits wording for bylaws
  • Bylaws
    • We’ll need to vote regardless, but can implement staggering of terms with policy
    • Need a clear way to communicate this installation of staggering - blog post
    • Have town hall, and attach changes to vote for the board
    • We’ll keep a policy of two years (it’s an interpretation) even if the percentage of votes in don’t support a bylaws change (last time, all who did vote supported it).

Updates

  • Project profiles (Mapping for Impact, OHM, TeachOSM, Community Ambassadors)
    • Linked and organized in a document
    • Mapping for Impact announcement delayed
  • Government meeting
    • Discussion about new panels is starting - enthusiasm!
  • Trails working group
    • Diane subbing in
    • Global perspective - be aware, but project is U.S. centric
    • Communication channels slack -> wiki
    • Come up with U.S. solutions, keep dialog open
  • New intern starting today - reporting to S. Johnson and Jess
    • OSMUS’s first intern!
  • “All that is Open conference” - Maggie and Dani attended in person
    • SOTM planning committee met while there
    • OSM was still a bit unknown among these companies
    • Jess presented a good storymap at this conference
    • Dani will schedule a meeting
    • SAAS companies… how do we develop a funding story - they think it’s Mapbox
      • Attribution, but it’s not the only tool
      • Jubal will share a useful slide
  • Sponsorship for SOTMUS
    • Elastik
    • Reach out if you have contacts. Nellie is already doing outreach
  • Action family grant - thank you $15,000
  • 2022 budget and priorities and strategies coming to the board, ideally at end of Nov.
    • Treasurer’s report
  • Changes in staff for next year - requests coming
  • Newsletter going out this week - got highlights?
  • Ettiquette guidelines posted today. Call for moderators … maybe get temporary ones while new election occurs
  • LLCWG:
    • What should local mappers get paid to do? Discussed on the 6th on Airmeet.
    • Keep perspective of how things can affect our chapter status and how country laws vary, but let LLCWG do this work.

New Business

  • TWG (Technical Working Group) - potential members meeting in Nov
  • Wiki conference - Welty gave a full, good talk on OpenHistoricalMap, but there were few attendees mainly because the conference had so many tracks.
  • OHM gave first submissions to SOTMUS
  • teachOSM integrating into academia
    • strategy of how to expand academic connections
    • Policy departments?
    • Jess’s time is limited.
  • Massive strategizing is needed for OSMUS priorities
  • Id project
    • Board has a long-term maintainer, but is winding down current work
    • New person needs time to ramp up so we’ll have a gap
    • Need to think about help beyond coding
    • How far away is the Rapid work gotten from id?

Open Discussion

Next Meeting

Adjournment

Secretary left the meeting at 3:01 MDT

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