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# LCCWG 2021-03-22 meeting

* Meeting started at 16:10 CEST

## 0. Attendance

### Present
* Adam - UK
* Joost - BE
* Maggie - US
* Clifford - US
* Geoffrey - UG
* Jorge - PT

### Not present
* Eugene - PH (with apologies)

* Anisa - IT
* Rob - UK

* Naveen - IN
* Patrick - CH
* Besfort - XK 
* Charles - ZM
* Jonathan - BE
* Sophie - UK


## 1. Administrative

### 1.1. Meeting chair

Chairing by Joost again

### 1.2. Approval of the 2021-02-22 meeting minutes

https://hackmd.io/ZVfwKYPcSJG7Ck8agEnuZA?view
(note: still in draft)
Approved.

### 1.3. Previous action items
*Items in **bold** are updates in status or new action items.*

| Assigned | Item | Status | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eugene | Work with OSM India to become an OSMF affiliate | Pended<br>([GL#5](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/5)) | 2020-02 meeting |
| Maggie, Clifford | Support the development of Microcosms | Ongoing<br>([GL#7](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/7)) | 2020-02 meeting |
| Maggie, Joost | Provide a tool for communities to welcome new mappers | Ongoing<br>([GL#8](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/8)) | 2020-04 meeting |
| Ben | Update OSM website to allow affiliated groups to message OSM users | Ongoing<br>([GL#9](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/9)) | 2020-04 meeting |
| All | Resolve overlapping OSMF and LC membership scheme | Ongoing<br>([GL#11](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/11)) | 2020-06 meeting |
| Eugene | Improve the affiliation scheme of the OSMF | Not yet started<br>([GL#12](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/12)) | GL#5 |
| All | Develop/design local community website template/tool | Ongoing<br>([GL#13](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/13)) | 2020-09 meeting |
| Adam | Update OSM website to highlight LCs | Ongoing<br>([GL#14](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/14)) | 2020-10 meeting |


## 2. WG focus items
_Per the Terms of Reference, WG members should work on the focus items._

### 2.1. Building local community cohesion

#### 2.1.1. Support the development of Microcosms ([GL#7](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/7))


#### 2.1.2. Provide a tool for communities to welcome new mappers ([GL#8](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/8))


#### 2.1.3. Update OSM website to allow affiliated groups to message OSM users ([GL#9](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/9))


#### 2.1.4. Develop/design local community website template/tool ([GL#13](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/13))


#### 2.1.5. Update the OSM website to highlight Local Chapters ([GL#14](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/14))
* Joost to ask advice from CWG
* Joost to update the wiki page as suggested on issue 15

#### 2.1.6 Talking with local and national governements
* A lot of interest and activity in several chapters
* Suggestion: meeting of people involved in this to exchange experience
* Of note: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_for_Government
* Maybe a full day meeting; perhaps a series of talks and a workshop / birds of a feather.
* Could be part of the next LC Congress
* We will work on a talk at State of the Map together


### 2.2. Facilitating a global exchange of ideas

#### 2.2.1. Moderation subcommittee
* They are using NextCloud, but needed a budget
* Felix from FOSS-WG started a trial, but with a set deadline

* First drafts available soon for review by an inner bigger group



### 2.3. Improving the Local Chapters affiliation scheme

#### 2.3.1. Resolve overlapping OSMF and LC membership scheme ([GL#11](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/11))


#### 2.3.3. Improve the affiliation scheme of the OSMF ([GL#12](https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/lccwg/-/issues/12))


## 3. Other business

### 3.1 Budget

* Software development for local community website hosting tool/solution 	€1000 	Eugene: Budget not needed if GitHub pages is the solution. Clifford: OSMF Microgrants can accept such funding for hosting; Rob: multi-year; Clifford says that Microgrants can be flexible in the future. 
* NextCloud instance to keep our subcommittee afloat and keep using ourselves in the future. For the subcommittee especially the forms feature is needed. 

Voted and accepted

## 4. Next meeting


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*Meeting ended at 17:15 CEST.*

