Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes-2013-10-36

Transitionary meeting of the 2012/2013/2014 board

Present

• Mele Sax-Barnett (incoming)
• Kathleen Danielson (incoming)
• Ian Dees (incoming)
• John Novak (outgoing)
• Jim McAndrew (outgoing)
• Martijn van Exel
• Alex Barth

Notes

• Meet and greet
• Martijn: update of previous procedures
• Alex: last year overview
• Kathleen: interested in growing grassroots
• Mele: How can we open OSM to new comers? Provide better learning materials?
• Discussion about #editathons
  • Package them better with documentation, starter package
  • Do hangouts with hangout hosts
• Education: Have Nuala Cowan do a guest blog post about "Teaching OSM"
• Ian: we should use our 300 people mailing list
  • Wochennotiz is great
  • Do something like a bi weekly news letter?
• Should there be a help@openstreetmap.us?
  • Discussion: How do we connect people to the right contacts that can provide an answer?

Next meeting

• Monday Oct 21st 8 PM Eastern

Agenda

• Roles
• When should we do AGM?
• SOTM-US
• Walk through of GitHub
• Retrospective on #editathons
• Miscellaneous