Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2021/09/27

Call to Order

Present

SOTMUS data decided: April fool’s
- Announcing tomorrow
- Call for volunteers
- Need to change subdomain for SOTMUS to 2022 - DNS
- UA is honoring the initial quote for the student union
Grace Hopper Celebration - Open Source Day mapping this Friday
- Dani & Diane volunteer for watch-me-map 30 mins
Update OSM webpage for presenting outside the organization
- Update governance: board github channels
Trails WG
- Fifteen people have signed up
- Have this be a model for future platform for experts to advise on OSM
Census grant is going to be submitted :)
Mappy Hours
- Live Stream mapping? Could try this since we’re mapping together
UVA data science project fell through b/c one student dropped the capstone
TeachOSM has found two interns for OSM
Red Cross - May be a mapping for impact partner
Maggie is attending the All Things Open conference in October

Bylaws
- Issue, we can’t pass proposed bylaws because we don’t get enough votes
- Goal is to have more continuity on the Board with overlap
- Thought is to extend service through policy to two years
- Possibly introduce term limits
- Bylaws are the basis for legal protection, but we develop policy on the wiki. Check with other Executive Directors to see if they’ve addressed term limits outside of bylaws.
Running for the Board
- Yearly election coming up soon - unaware of people interested in running
ID Maintainer
- Martin Rifer has accepted the position - announced at the OSMF Board meeting.

Is approaching students at universities to see if they want to do an OSM capstone project okay?
- Interesting idea - look to the service learning model - should be okay
- Need to keep in mind we don’t have a lot of capacity for extensive mentoring
Funding
- OSMUS is a non-profit
- Corporate donations need some guidance. We need to develop tiers, etc., so we have a structure for when companies want to contribute monetarily.