LCCWG 2023-11-27 meeting

Meeting started at 14:19 UTC.

0. Attendance

Present

• Arnalie - HOT/Board
• Eugene - PH
• Maggie - USA
• Muluba - RDC
• Adam - UK
• Besfort - UK (joined middle of meeting)
• Charles - ZM (joined near end of meeting)

Not present

• Anisa - IT (with apologies)

1. Administrative

• Minutes of previous two meetings:
  • October: https://hackmd.io/@lccwg/HJy48ETfT
    • Approved (with some abstentions)
  • September: https://hackmd.io/@lccwg/HkWO3W1ga
    • Approved

2. Main agenda

2.1. Board updates c/o Arnalie

• Arnalie requested private gitlab repository for LC applications (LCCWG and Board to have access) to Dorothea; Dorothea forwarded to Grant; request is still ongoing
  • Follow-up with Grant the repo request
• Arnalie Board POC for Belgium reapplication
• Board election in December: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2023/Election_to_Board
  • WG to encourage people to vote
  • For future - Board remind members on deadline to be a member if they want to run for board (180days before AGM)

2.2. WG budget

• Board Treasurer Roland emailed the WG to ask if we need any budget
  • Community microgrants?
    • Suggestion: plan the microgrants 1H 2024, possibly with another WG, then run the program for 2H 2024
    • Suggestion: 5 projects possibly at max 5K eur each
    • Eugene to talk to Joost but Eugene can act as POC; Eugene to reply to Roland's email
    • So: Possible budget of 25k euro

2.3. LC How-to + application updates/status

• As mentioned before Arnalie is Board POC to OSMBE reapplication
  • Board to handle BE reapplication; WG will not be involved
• OSM The Gambia
  • https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Gambia_by_OSM_Gambia
  • sent their bylaws via email
  • Circle back to Anisa about being POC for The Gambia application
  • WG to review Bylaws
• Other potential applications:
  • Indonesia interested to apply (via SotM Asia)
    • Arnalie to follow-up
  • Sri Lanka is interested; will incorporate in 2024
  • Finland is interested
  • Bangladesh is interested but government problems
  • Fiji (under an org) is also interested

2.4. Improving the OSMF affiliation model [GL#12]

discourse thread: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/improving-the-affiliation-scheme-of-the-osmf/105288

2.5. LCC Virtual Congress

• Schedule a planning meeting early Jan OR change dates to provide more planning time?
• Reschedule for March 2. Open Data week kickoff!
  • Use Jan 29 meeting to plan the event
  • Use Feb 26 to make any needed changes / final prep
  • Use OSM US Zoom account
  • Use OSM US CRM (Neon) as signup
  • Maggie will create calendar invite to LCCC
• Europe SotM - any reports?
  • Adam talked with Andy Allan about the community page
• Asia SotM - any reports?
  • Indonesia interested to apply; Arnalie in contact with Iko and Zainab
• Africa SotM - starts Nov 30
• Mapping USA (Jan 19)
• Previous to-dos:
  • Maggie to draft a blog post to announce in-person + virtual LCCC with dates and agenda/discussion topics (SHOULD WE ADD FEEDBACK FROM THE LOCAL SOTM's?)
  • Draft email to previous attendees thanking them and inviting them
  • Eugene to create wiki page

3. Any other business

• Włodzimierz Bartczak (Polish LC) interested to join LCCWG
  • he needs to come to the call meeting
• Tidy up Gitlab c/o Adam and Eugene
• add to january agenda
  • 2021 Community survey documentation?
  • Communities page
• Remind monthly meeting earlier (at least a day before)

4. Next meeting

• 29, January 2024 (Happy holidays, everyone!)
  • 14:00 UTC Arnalie to request with Maggie

Meeting ended 15:20 UTC.