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# LCCWG 2023-02-27 meeting

*Meeting started at 15:07 UTC.*

## 0. Attendance

### Present
* Eugene - PH
* Maggie - US
* Joost - BE
* Anisa - IT
* Arnalie - HOT
* Charles - ZM

### Guest
* Rachele - UN

### Not Present
* Adam - UK (with apologies)
* Geoffrey - UG
* Besfort - XK
* Jonathan - BE
* Patrick - CH
* Naveen - IN
* Jorge - PT
* Naveen - IN

## 1. Administrative

* Minutes of previous meeting: [https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters_and_Communities_Working_Group/Meeting_minutes/2023-01-30]
** Approved.

## 2. Main agenda

### 2.1. Microgrants
* Joost to send a proposal to the board

### 2.2. Osm.org landing page
* Joost to write a simple start of proposal
  * Maybe bring up this topic in the next Advisory Board meeting

### 2.3. Trails engagement
* Next step - everyone think on best way to coordinate/collaborate
  * OSMUS update:
    * https://www.openstreetmap.us/trails/
    * https://www.openstreetmap.us/2023/02/trails-pilot-update/
  * OSMPH mapathon: https://www.facebook.com/bahaghari.maps/posts/pfbid027Vkf1Qy1UQtXvzqjYdfpu8SUyUDHzxEPjKaUVU1RRGCUNuAc161znrUz3ZTDVda9l
* Maybe 24-hour mapathon in the northern hemisphere fall?

### 2.4. Support the development of Microcosms [GL#7]
* No news that the present people know of.
** Maggie will talk with Brian 

### 2.5. LCC Congress 2022
* No updates so far.
  * Maggie and Joost to set a meeting for the communications 
* Previous to-dos:
  - [ ] 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

### 2.6. Update the OSM website to highlight Local Chapters ([GL#14](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/14))
* Mini-project to improve the [User group](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_group) wiki page linked from the Communities page. Suggestions: might be good to link osm community forum, community index, link to local chapters page (with how to apply etc)

### 2.7. Local Chapter how-to
* https://hackmd.io/4NfuVm7tSKi3HIB3FKFrNQ 
  * Eugene proposes that the WG adopt and improve this document
    * Approved
  * Arnalie raised the issue about Jean-Marc's commercial activities requirements for LCs: https://hackmd.io/s8kgTLCKRKalOT1dQA16rg
    * Idea is that the WG will not address this document yet.

## 3. Any other business
None

*Meeting ended 16:00 UTC.*