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title: LCCWG 2024-02-28 meeting

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# LCCWG 2024-02-28 meeting

*Meeting started at 13:14 UTC.*

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## 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:
  - https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters_and_Communities_Working_Group/Meeting_minutes/2024-01-31
  - approved
  - Eugene: Transfer of minutes to OSMF wiki is ongoing
- 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

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*Meeting ended 14:07 UTC.*
