Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes-2013-01-15

DRAFT

Review by board members pending.

Present

• Martijn van Exel
• Randy Hale
• Jim McAndrew
• John Novak
• Alex Barth

Summary

These are OpenStreetMap US’ goals for 2013 based on our Jan 25 strategy meeting:

• Continue to ramp up communications on blog
  • Blog state side and important int’l OSM activities
  • Feature local mapping events
  • Respond to outside topics
• Focus on launching a good SOTM 2013
• Get one or two pan-US mapping events like the Jan 26 event going
• Organize an OSM data hack weekend (we should set a date for this soon).
• Expand and improve on q/a tools like maproulette
• Relaunch osm.us
• Hit important events (ESRI? FOSS4GNA?)
• Push on membership drive
• Get 501c3
• Get outside help to build this organization
• Recruit future board members
• Rock SOTM.US

Notes

In rough order, aggregated mostly by person.

Martijn

• “community is central” “we need to take our own approach” “data driven communities”. More visual, more tangible what we can fix.
• mappy hour
• we need to professionalize
• There was a bunch more, did not catch everything
• OSM data hack weekend? YES!

John Novak:

• MapRoulette is a promosing approach, capture results
• capture these results, do media work around it
• “capturing the progress we’ve made is a big enabler [for fundraising]”
• succession planning, who should be also on board?
• How can we facilitate building Q/A apps? Could there be an OSM-US data app platform?

Jim McAndrew

• Work closer with agencies who could be contributing data / work w/ OSM
• The press outreach that thea was doing was great, how impactful was it? It did allow us to build the community in Atlanta?
• Fundraising?
• Can we get people on board who can build organizations?
• Get Telenav’s HP Jin for a mentoring hour

Randy

• I’d like to push membership
• Get to a 20k in the bank
• “attention horing is good”

Alex

• Blogging / PR / Events
• Relaunch osm.us
• Kick ass SOTM US (convene community of individual mappers + biz community)
• Feature Q/A tools like Maproulette or TIGER offset map

Random ideas

• Should we have interns?
• Should we do MapUSA?
• Should we do more hack weekends? At sotm us?
• Should we do a mapping bus?
• Launch an annual progress report?

Potential staff, blue sky, post - 2013

• Communications/outreach/PR lead
• Data team
• Q/A
• Import assistance
• Annual report, stats
• Measuring events
• Fund raiser