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# February CWG Meeting
2022-02-07 14:00 UTC
# Attendees
* Amanda
* Pete
* Tobias
* Mikel
* Marjan
# Intros (if new members attending)
# Agenda / Notes
### Different system for managing stickers requests? [Amanda]
Proposal to found a “Promotional Material Programme Team” with a separate list for sticker/etc requests - vote carried out at https://framadate.org/QJdiRYjfz5NBvpHe
* Amanda gave updates on success in streamlining the OSM promotional material request
* Pete remarked lots of request lately
### Simplify https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page [Andrew]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/60
Actions:
### Take stock social media [Pete]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/12
Discussion:
* Need someone to take this over in Ben's absence (Pete happy to take this over if others agree - will get up to speed before March meeting for twitter and facebook at a minimum)
* Still need to work out how to manage Insta access
ACTION:
* Contact LinkedIn support directly to try and reset credentials
* Amanda will talk to Grant who has twitter access about the Twitter Mastodon Cross poster. .
* Mikel gave description
* “Task looking for a do-oer” Mikel asked if anyone wanted to do it.
* Pete is going start making more tweets with access to GroupTweets
* Pete will ask Ben for Facebook access, reports that mostly it's comments about border disputes.
* Pete doesn't have access to OSM LinkedIn
* Amanda has access to Pinterest & Instagram
### Clean Up Access to Blog [Mikel]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/28
* Mikel is removing old access to the blog, but hasn't finished yet, work is in progress.
### Guidelines for Guest posts [Pete]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/38
* Pete hasn't done any work on this since last time, nothing to report.
### Blog analytics [Harry]
Who / how many people actually read the blogs?
* Harry (not preset) has access to Piwiki.
* Some small mention on CWG mailing list about piwik, but no-one has heard much more
* Mikel isn't sure piwiki gives everything he wants.
### Finalize CWG joining proces [Pete / Mikel]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/47
* Pete added description of decision making on the gitlab wiki https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/wikis/New-member-decision-making
ACTIONS:
* Mikel to look at documentation for new member onboarding (fyi Pete started this page at https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/wikis/onboarding-new-members)
* Harry to review and and make any necessary changes to https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/wikis/New-member-decision-making
* Mikel is ensuring that the list of things new people need, are documented.
* Marjan (new member) will try to report what is done/needed to ensure what is needed is written down, maybe using the wiki
### Made with OpenStreetMap
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2021-November/008217.html
* Tobias reports that it's commonly asked about
* … thinks that foundating backing is very helpful, since it.
* … thinks we could ask LWG
* Mikel links to an old discussion https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-January/065784.html
* Existing image suggestion from Heikki https://twitter.com/HeikkiVesanto/status/1485939523469070340/photo/1
* Amanda suggests waiting to see what people come up with.
* Mikel says it would be bikeshedded
* Amanda & Pete say you should ask LWG for feedback
* Tobias & Pete suggests telling people that CWG would consider choosing an attribution logo
* Amanda suggesting checking with LWG to ensure there is no massive problem
* Tobias says he will contact LWG to ensure there are no big problems.
* Pete will blog about this idea
## Blogs
### Welcome new OSMF Board Members and first board meeting of 2022 [Andrew]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/59
* Pete approves of Andrew's welcome new OSMF boad meembers
Ready to go?
### Fastly [Mikel]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/9
* Mikel (left meeting by now) had been working on this.
### Local Chapter posts [Dorothea]
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/44
### Local Chapter Congress [Pete]
Attended but dropped the ball on this one. Will stay in touch with Maggie for future LCCWG overlaps.
* Pete was at LC congress but accidentally forgot to blog about it
### Microsoft OS Award
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/58
* Pete askes where the information would come from, asks if it'd be the board, or MS
* Marjan suggests looking into this
### International Women's Day in 8th March - Belgian & GeoChicha's “strees named after women”?
* Marjan is interested in that, and volunteers to work on that, and talk to GeoChicha people
### Content pipeline
https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/cwg/-/issues/11
Coming up:
#### Discourse instance - community sensitisation support?
* Tobias reports the post was waiting on new discourse release, which had only recently happened
* … thinks discourse lauch will be quiet
* … hopes people remember to talk
#### Mastodon instance announcement?
* Amanda is waiting until the Twitter Mastodon crossposter is set up, which should be soon.
#### New member outreach
* Pete thinks CWG new membership should be organic, waiting for new people to apply
## New ticketing system OTRS
* Amanda reports on TomH setting up OTRS for stickers & unprompted for communications
* … will ask TomH to set up OTRS accounts for Pete & Tobias, and they will report next month on what the software is like
## press@osmfoundation.org email not working
* Tobias reports that Mikel added this item, and (& Pete) was not aware of any issues