Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2021/07/28

Call to Order

Present

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

Old Business

• Approval of the June Minutes

Updates

• Mapping for Impact: Partnerships program
  • Kaboom was at Mappy Hour and the last two map-a-longs
  • Last map-a-long guest: Eugene and mapped playgrounds in Philadelphia
  • Idea: Compile a list of folks to talk to for expanding Mapping for Impact
  • Seattle greenways could be one
  • Nice foundation laid by Jess - nice to dig into a new program
• First call for community ambassador program next month
  • Jess will be putting this together!
• Proposal for NSF
  • Nellie attended a webinar and found the timeline was too tight for this round
  • $450,000 over 3 years would be the reward
  • $100,000 for conference
• Teach OSMs are now named Map-a-longs, not Mappy Hours
  • Open to anybody - extending beyond educators
  • First Tuesday of every month
• Government committee
  • recording of last panel available from FedGeoDay
  • Many meetings internally are happening
  • Slack channel for designing the site, logo has started #publicdomainosm
  • Census contest ($25,000 prize) we’re eligible - public domain (data) project!
• LCCWG
  • Posted etiquette document - opened to 18th of August for feedback
  • Next two weeks of LCCWG meetings cancelled
  • Osm board update happening this Friday
• NGAC people want to know more about Maggie = good sign
• Conferences on the radar
  • “All Things Open” conference is going to be in-person/hybrid
  • Maggie is pursuing a travel grant to go to Seattle in Sept. (see FB and others)
• OSM Birthday event:
  • Aug 8th world birthday 11am UTC - still need four more countries
• UVA about fall project - Have not heard from them, expect it to ramp up in August
• Program feature in newsletter starting (updates about OHM and Teach OSM for example)
• Trails
  • Our response to NPS: we can help them find things and correct them - great examples
  • Elliot had a great talk that was a bit beyond just instructing new users (linking to wikidata-formal)
  • SOTM - frederick talk touched on trails
  • Feedback to GAIA and other 3rd party apps can be provided
• GeoLadies night will happen in Sept. - looking for a host

Open Discussion

• OSMUS talk list: Would be good to develop one
• Hiring person for iDeditor
  • Discussion about the difficulty of hiring for this position occurred
  • Dani is attending osmf mtg august 10th - she can ask
  • Board mtg is on Friday (topic already on the agenda during the closed session)
  • Larger philosophy question: We don’t want these tools to be fully corporate, but we don’t always have the capacity to do the work
  • Positive - there IS a new version!
• OSMF finances - discussed
• Bylaws -
  • We need to bring these for a vote again
  • In the past, low turnout has meant threshold to pass hasn’t been met
  • What is our open rate of emails? If that’s not 50% this could affect turnout
• Feb March for SOTMUS in Tucson - still need feedback about the 100 restrictions
  • For those who don’t get their talks in, they can do the fall Mapping USA
  • Vaccination policy?
    • State (AZ) has rules against mask mandates
    • Maybe hybrid conference is the answer
    • U of AZ will have their own guidance
• Mappy hours
  • Back to school month - August
  • Food inequity - September (Detroit)
  • Historical - October
• Code for America
  • Do something map related - encourage participation
  • Boston maptime and code for Boston
  • Osm colorado - inform

Next Meetings

August at some point during the last week

Adjournment

15:05 MDT