Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2021/03/25

Call to Order

Present

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

Absent

• Dani

Old Business

• Motion to approve February Minutes: accepted, no objections
• Vote on OpenHistoricalMap as Charter Project
  • Expectations are controlled - This is our first c.p.
  • Steering committee is set
• Vote on 2021 Budget (first tab in doc)
  • Budget discussion
    • ½ to our goal - Hope is to be able to contribute $ to programs
    • Craig’s list donation was a surprise given their focus on “journalism”
    • Road trip - return of this idea post-Covid - covered in: Expenses ED
    • Large expenses for ED would come back to the board
    • Projected profit: $36,000
    • Board votes to approve

Updates

• ED Update
  • Spring meeting = “Mapping USA” - good committee is putting it together
    • Theme: Tour across the country - not everywhere, but places missed will be in the fall
    • Meetings on Mondays - please join
  • AGS meeting
    • Eddie Pickle - looking for an OSMUS rep for Jun 8th meeting and Maggie is hoping to have a different face other than hers present
  • OSMUS Website Design - Monday meeting OSM RP
  • Jess Beutler - mini interview conducted - she’s starting as a contractor Apr 5th
    • Contract is in staff folder along with job description
    • We’re excited to have her
  • Teach OSM
    • After school programs are starting - Need support to harness volunteers - Jess can help!
    • Website is completed - but it still says beta (GeoSurge has been paid - Tom will continue to oversee it)
    • Map of OSM educators across the U.S. - would be nice to have as homepage
  • Newsletter
    • Scavenger hunt in NYC
    • Call for proposals
    • Mapping USA announcement - happening before the global OSM conf
  • Presenting implementation plan to OSMF board meeting, March 26th 10am EDT
    • Code of conduct by July
  • 2021 Priorities - new section on how the board can help added to document

New Business

• UVa School of Data Science partnership proposal
  • Lane - fellow at UofVirginia data science, more familiar with wikimedia, but wants to involve OSM
  • Grad capstone - MachineLearning-centric
  • Fee waiver for OSM for project involvement
  • The ask:
    • Work on the application
    • Work begins in August (next school year)
  • Finding someone to advise - Mikel at Mapbox, for example
  • Interweaving OSM into academia
  • Striving for less of a corporate vibe at the university
  • All partnerships are good for OSM
  • Find alignment with OSM’s future direction
    • mapping undermapped places
    • Suggest campaigns to promote to the community
    • Identifying mapper’s patterns through their journey
      • Applying an ML perspective on the type of work Jennings has done
    • Intrinsic analysis
    • Feature detection
  • Timeline - wants to kick off the application with help of Maggie, Minh and Diane
  • OSM can be used to measure SDGs - have findings come out of this process
  • Respond to Lane and set up a meeting
• RMS open letter
  • There is a lot of corroboration on the poor behavior of Stallman
  • Should OSM get involved?
    • The whole FSF board is called for being removed - strong reaction
    • Maybe wait and see to let the conversation evolve
    • Maggie has been attending opensource community spaces and is building relationships. Making stances is awkward.
    • Most signatories are part of the FSF ecosystem and issues oriented. We are a bit outside.
  • Decision: OSMUS won’t sign for now

Open Discussion

• How to interact with unofficial OSMUS platforms
  • Discord channel “OSMUS” findable through community index - wouldn’t close it down or rename it
  • Only held spam - damaging to our community if folks find this first
  • We endorse our slack channel
  • Youth mappers may have this issue a lot
  • Should we take an active position - do we have the bandwidth to chase this down
    • OSM.US domain is still for sale - buy?
    • Create a policy - to point to when/if these conversations happen
    • Also - emphasize where we DO communicate

Next Meetings

• Next meeting of Board likely April 27th 3pm EDT, but poll in slack
• Poll for informal meeting in May coming on slack

Adjournment

12:02 MDT