Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2020/01/14

Attendees

• Minh
• Alyssa
• Ian
• Jonah
• Maggie
• Steven

Old business

December meeting minutes approved

OSMUS board elections

• 1st town hall meeting had a couple attendees
• Feedback about minutes’ brevity
• Alan to moderate election

Bylaws changes

• Staggered 2-year terms
• Terms would start in 2020
• Would be complicated if everyone were to run this year
• Proposal would be included in ballot
• Term limits: 1 year off after two 2-year terms
• Blog post about elections, including making the case for bylaw changes
• Mention in 3rd town hall, give candidates advance notice
• Mention in wiki

Local chapter status

• Continuing to discuss local chapter status with OSMF

SotMUS 2020

• Got some outreach in Slack about the decision process
• Corral questions & comments about selection process into public Slack channel so we can make changes more transparently
• Local organizing committee is mostly active the weekend of the event; lots of preparation beforehand
• First 20-minute meeting with Tuscon committee

Board appointments

• To bring in expertise in developing & executing on strategy
• Board/ED already has ability to appoint officers to board (as opposed to directors) without bylaw changes
• No candidates currently under consideration

Executive director

• Maggie accepted our offer and is employed as of Jan 1
• Working on payment logistics, state tax

Updates

TeachOSM

• Partnerships with American Geographical Society with GeoTech Center – seminar in June, community college audience
• Trained about 500 teachers to date
• Several teachers returned to SotMUS in Minneapolis, gave positive feedback about attending the conference
• Current tooling for validation/assessment need improvement for classroom usage, need tracking per class, individual student – need grading tools beyond JOSM/OSMCha validation
• For 2020, fundraising is high priority – need to diversify funding stream, structured grants
• Create high school service organization – YouthMappers uninterested in high school outreach

ED updates

• Maggie to share 2019 year in review
• Working through open-ended responses to community survey with Jennings
• Put 2020 goals/priorities in document
• Synthesize 50 stakeholder meetings, board 2020 goals/priorities, community survey into plan of action
• Conference in Banff
• Mapathon in Seattle
• Annual giving campaign
• Working with DOT, MapRoulette, DWG to figure out DOT data sharing
• Meetings in Brussels along with Alyssa
• Alyssa to send details on Mozilla support event
• Haven’t received Indeed grant, will blog once we receive it

New business

• Guidelines for charter projects

Open discussion

• FEMA asked Ian (OpenAddresses) if there are any crowdsourcing tools for addresses, parallels with DOT discussions

1 more meeting with current board, time to be determined by Doodle poll, plus transition meeting