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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