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title: LCCWG 2023-01-30 meeting

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# LCCWG 2023-01-30 meeting

*Meeting started at 15:21 UTC.*

## 0. Attendance

### Present
* Eugene - PH
* Maggie - US
* Joost - BE
* Anisa - IT
* Adam - UK - joined 41'
* Naveen - IN - joined 45'

### Not Present
* Geoffrey - UG
* Arnalie - HOT
* Charles - ZM
* Besfort - XK
* Jonathan - BE
* Patrick - CH
* Rob - UK
* Naveen - IN
* Jorge - PT

## 1. Administrative

* back to a real chairperson? Eugene accepts!
* Minutes of previous meeting: [november meeting](https://hackmd.io/AY5MTz7ATQ6VOKA3rOl5Jg?view).
  * Approved.
* old minutes on the wiki? Or just put up a HackMD link for now?
  * Eugene volunteers to transform to the wiki


## 2. Main agenda

* microgrants: idea to ask the Board if and how LCCWG can take the lead on this.
    * Limit to things related to community building
    * Last time most work was done by Committee run from the Board
    * General model: like the Subcommittee of the LCCWG
    * Approved by the meeting
    * Joost to send a proposal to the board
* Proposal: create an osm.org landing page that is oriented to new people interested in OSM. See welcome.osm.org or [how all the local chapters do it](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/1).
    * Joost to write a simple start of proposal

* regional events: state of the map us, state of the map asia, wikimania, sotm europe, osmit, 
* trails engagement
    * Next step - everyone think on best way to coordinate/collaborate


### 2.1. Support the development of Microcosms [GL#7]
No news that the present people know of.

### 2.2. LCC Congress 2022

#### Follow-up

- [ ] report on the event (blog + stats about attendance) [Maggie+Joost] (start document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kORAv2J2SqplC--hRaA7UKSt0qrbrcJVV3FoCD0s8k4/edit )
- [ ] send thank you e-mail once the links are up (maggie) & include ask to get more involved with lccwg
- [ ] [link to videos](https://youtu.be/uNQrm79Svok) but they are wonky might want to redo

### 2.3. Update the OSM website to highlight Local Chapters ([GL#14](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/14))
* We had an article about the new feature.

## 3. Any other business?
* How to guide to become a local chapter:
  * https://hackmd.io/4NfuVm7tSKi3HIB3FKFrNQ 

*Meeting ended 16:07 UTC.*