Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2021/11/23

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Call to Order

Present

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

Old Business

  • Elections
    • Template document available

Updates

  • Red Cross Contract - gelling all of our things together
    • 12 months of OSM
    • Finishes in 2 weeks
  • 30 days of OSM
    • giving out T-shirts
    • Gift certificate to the store mugs/socks cozy things
  • Trails Working Group
    • More communication before any changes
    • Blog post
      • Lay out plan in front of everyone
    • Participation is still high
    • Next meeting is Dec 1st
    • Use this group as a model for other work
  • SOTMUS
    • Can’t require vaccines - U of AZ rules preside: communicate this to attendees
    • Fundraising to $27,000
    • Canned contact ready to send out to prospective donors
    • So far: 10 talks, 62 scholarship applications (can give 10-15)
    • 10 yr anniversary - tracking down all the logos (from t-shirts or logos)?
  • Open data for good
    • We’ll find out about $25,000 in Dec. that we went after.
    • 120,000 from Craigslist in total!

New Business

  • 2022 Budget draft / 2021 PL statement
    • Goals - laying out worst case/ middle / love to happen scenarios
    • Want to grow org, but no bankrupting is the priority
    • We’ll vote on this in the Dec. meeting
    • Increase time for Nellie & Jess and bring on another person
    • Steering committee for TeachOSM
      • Volunteer base needs something to drive it forward
      • TeachOSM is a program under OSMUS, so we can work here
      • Work on tying OSM to geography curriculums
    • Strategy for budget - not just visioning - do this in Dec. 13th week
    • We need programs - what do we do as an organization? Need to define this.
    • Progression for other charter projects? Not always into a program.
  • Annual Members meeting date
    • Townhall for public bylaws change (different than members mtg - Jan 16th)
    • Combine these? Members only first. Perhaps on the week of the 10th.
  • Strategy 2022 meeting date
    • Week of Dec 13

Open Discussion

  • OSMF elections
    • What might these mean for our relationship with OSMF
    • Running: a few people from the U.S., all others are from Germany
  • Moderation team with 5 new people! - presenting on on the 26th
  • SOTM Africa - Martijn presented
    • Good energy
    • Middle of the night
    • Hop-in was the platform used - also by HOTOSM summit
  • Public maintainer of ID editor and funding discussed
  • Discord channel
    • How do we interact here?
    • Push to LWG / OSMf and see what they recommend
  • Board policies
    • Set up onboarding and offboarding
    • Time-bound email addresses need to be established
    • Clean up access to the board space
    • Github template - checklist

Next Meeting

Dec. meeting early in the 20th week … or early Jan.

Adjournment

2:12pm MDT