My May 2020 in OSM

(Yes I know I’m posting this in late June. I’m sorry I’m so late. Been a bit all over the place lately)

• Mapping
  • Lots of regular building mapping. As usual. Slowly chugging through mapping buildings in Dublin, where I’m from. Eventually we’ll have all the buildings in Ireland mapped
• Coding
  • Submitted a patch to iD to add a real_fire=yes/no field for pubs for Ireland & Britain.
  • Continued to work on my side project for avoiding vandalism in OSM. One of these days I’ll tell yous about it. 🤫😉
• Community
  • Engaged some in conversation in the comments of my last diary post
• Board
  • Local Chapters: I continued to help out with this.
    • Oceania (OSGeo Oceania)
      • Lots of work to contact active mappers in the area to ask about OSGeo
        • OSM Msg’ed 27 active mappers in the area. 3 approvals, 1 disapproval, 1 don’t care, the rest no reply
        • Posted to #australia channel on OSMUS’s Slack server. No reply
        • Contacted OSGeo Pacific Islands, they approve
    • OSM US
      • Working on the v2 Local Chapter Agreement. Talked to our corporate counsel about it, a few emails back and forth.
    • Argentia
      • Contacted mapper who expressed concern if they’d like to help find evidence. No reply
  • Board Meeting on 21st.
  • Properly signed all the contracts & confirm paid for our BigBlueButton video chat server
  • OSMF’s Corporate Members
    • The board & some corporate members had an introductory call, to try to work better together
    • Cesium applied for & got a trademark grant
  • Fee Waiver stuff
    • Contacted the OSMF’s corporate counsel to check if we can give (normal) membership for the fee waiver, rather than the current associate membership. Yes we can
  • Microgrants
    • Looked into this a little internally to board

Previously: April 2020 Mar 2020 Feb 2020 Jan 2020