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LCCWG 2024-02-28 meeting

Meeting started at 13:14 UTC.


0. Attendance

Present

  • Anisa - IT
  • Eugene - PH
  • Maggie - US
  • Geoffrey - UG (joined 48')

Not present

  • Adam - UK (with apologies)
  • Arnalie - HOT (with apologies)
  • Besfort - XK (with apologies)

Guests

  • Michael Montani - UNGSC (coordinating with UN Mappers)

1. Administrative

  • Minutes of previous meeting:
  • Włodzimierz Bartczak (Polish LC) interested to join LCCWG
    • No word yet
  • Arnalie requested private gitlab repository for LC applications (LCCWG and Board to have access) to Dorothea; Dorothea forwarded to Grant; request is still ongoing
    • Arnalie has followed up with Grant
  • Tidy up GitLab c/o Adam and Eugene
    • no updates yet

2. Main agenda

2.1. LCC Virtual Congress

  • Event page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Local_Chapters_Congress/2024

  • 80 sign-ups so far

    • attending LCCWG members should still register
  • Decide to use OSM US Zoom account for the Congress mainly because it can handle a lot more people and there are options for dialing in

  • Maggie to send meeting link a few days before the Congress

  • Program details

    • LC reports: 25 min
      • IT - Anisa (to also include LCCWG update?)
      • PH - Eugene
      • HOT - Arnalie
      • US - Maggie
      • RU - Ilya (Eugene will confirm)
      • UK - Eugene will coordinate with Adam
      • UG - Geoffrey
    • Affiliation Models Update & Discussion
      • Eugene to coordinate with Arnalie
      • Maybe breakout discussion?
    • Website redesign
      • Maybe breakout discussion?
    • SotMs/MUSA
      • Mapping USA - Maggie
      • SotM EU - Joost
      • SotM Asia - Eugene to coordinate
      • SotM Africa - Geoffrey
      • SotM Oceania - Check with Arnalie
      • Give space for announcements
    • Fundraising & Chapter Sustainability
      • Maybe breakout discussion?
    • Open topics
    • HackMD notepad
      • Eugene will create shared notepad
    • Eugene to coordinate with people not present in the meeting
    • For closing - should we promote joining lccwg?

2.2. LC How-to + application updates/status

2.2.1. OSM The Gambia application

  • No updates; Anisa will coordinate with Arnalie to move this forward for the March meeting

3. Any other business

  • UN Mappers joining the group?
    • Michael attended to observe and works with United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC)
    • Michael is willing to join as UN rep of the WG

4. Next meeting

  • Currently scheduled for 27 March 2024, Wednesday
    • Note that some areas are switching to daylight saving time (USA on Mar 10)
    • Time to be decided in Telegram Cha

Meeting ended 14:07 UTC.