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title: OSMbe activities report 2019
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# OSMbe activities report 2019

###### tags: `annual-report`

## OSM.be

* open issue tracking (github)
* multilingual communication
* MotM publication
* migration to openstreetmap.be

## Activities

* regular informal meetups for community building
* occasional events with an agenda (open data day, osmand routing workshop)
* presence at Open Belgium, FOSS4G.be
* presence at AIV Trefdag
* ...

## Single point of Contact / outreach

* strong preference for board@osm.be vs individual mails
* talk to "the community" via community@osm.be
* Open Summer of Code
* free "business analysis" for potential OSM data user - data improver. For example East-Flanders cycle route planner (with data conflation and improvement)


## Organisational improvemens

* membership reset
* access management (gitlab)

## Internal Communications channels

* use of bridges to link open source tool Riot to radically open source IRC
* Forum and mailing list remain alive for further outreach
* other channels just to be reachable


* advocacy for open; e.g. Open Street View
* consultancy for gov with open ideas, e.g. cycle routing planner
* role in the global ecosystem: "politics" and technology
* loads of open issues, see github osmbe/community planning
* migration of all the tools to okbe
* Supporting building import