Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes-2014-05-14

Present

• Alex
• Martijn
• Ian
• Mele

Notes

• Kathleen
  • Pick a better time now that she's in Berlin
• Financials
  • Looking for an accountant to help with financials
• Martijn's Utah GIS Talk
  • Martijn's giving a talk about OSM with regional OSM people
• 501(c)(3)
  • Discussing focusing more on education aspect of our mission
• National Day of Civic Hacking
• Mission statement
  • Alex moved to approve change to our mission statement to add "education" as a part of our mission statement.
  • Approved: 4 in favor, 1 absent
• State of the Map US
  • What we want for next year?
    • Do a better job getting the press involved
    • Get volunteers more involved
    • Ask people who had strong opinions to help with organization
  • How do OSM organizations run large events?
    • We could have kept 2 full-time people busy for 2 months
    • We should ask FOSS4G team
    • Hire an event organizer?
  • How can we engage the existing community better?