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Attendees
- Steven
- Jonah
- Maggie
- Ian
- Alyssa
- Minh
Old business
October 24 board meeting minutes approved.
Updates
Communications
- Community survey out
- Good reaction to first newsletter, second one coming out
- Charlotte Wolter volunteering to copyedit and gather tidbits
- Austin Bell collaborating on podcast following discussion at SotMUS
- Austin to reach out to German community about Radio OSM
Committees
- Code of Conduct committee forming, goal is 5 people
Local chapter status
- Addendum draft went out, made some edits, OSMF board to discuss at meeting tomorrow
- Maggie reaching out to local chapters working group, which will hopefully get recognition as working group soon
- We will meet again after OSMF board gets back to us
Meetings and conferences
- GeoWeek last week
- Critigen mapped in 24 cities – to include in newsletter and blog
- Maggie met with Johns Hopkins data center director
- Maggie confirmed as keynote speaker in Banff
- Maggie helping to plan FedGeo day February 13–14 in D.C. to make OSM a bigger presence
- Maggie collaborating with DoT on weekly mapping feature and FedGeo planning
SotMUS 2020
- Waiting for other letters of intent
Executive director
- Maggie to do more strategy and 2020 planning next month
- Hiring Maggie as executive director
New business
Strategic planning
- Dedicated meeting for 2020 planning with outside folks, maybe as hook to garner interest in next election
- Should contain tactical information, consider capacity
- Think about governance structure in strategic plan
Next board election
- Need to complete SotMUS site selection and local chapter agreement first
- Bylaw changes can be proposed for next election
- Maggie to propose election timeline
Open discussion
- Minh to reach out to Martijn about continuing Mappy Hours
- In the future, encourage U.S. community members to participate in OSMF board
- Jonah discussed cartographic (non-OSM) work he’s doing for OSM-related companies