What I did in OpenStreetMap in September 2021

(I was on holidays for a few weeks in September)

• Mapping
  • I can’t remember for sure. Since I was travelling outside Germany, I was able to add lots of things that are all done in England. Thank the gods for StreetComplete. I really think it’s wonderful.
  • I was able to do some micromapping with vespucci fedi post, tweet
• OSMF Board
  • Our bookkeeper needed my new address & IBAN to pay me expenses I incurred doing CWG stuff
  • Filed expense account for the payment, and filled in the OSMF board internal wiki page, and then posted on Mastodon/fediverse
  • WeeklyOSM № 579 says “at present announcements of upcoming meetings are being made within a week of the meeting, so it is not possible for us to announce them accordingly”. I got in touch, and tried to explain that we only finalize the agenda 7 days before the meeting. The dates are announced well in advance
  • I posted a status update on board decision re: ToU on osm-website github
  • Sept Board meeting, ensured the LCCWG mod subcttee were aware.
  • SotM & “illegal to be gay”
    • Emailed board to say SotM OC & HOT Board, and talked at the Sept. mid-month chat
  • HOT Trademark grant, emailed LWG to confirm they want a new call
  • Since I’ve changed my name, I had to upload a new signature
  • Local Chapters
    • seav is going to help with upgrading Local Chapters to the new Local Chapters Agreement
  • EU Transparency Reg: logged in with reset password & updated details
  • AGM
    • Emailed Michael Collinson if he’d want to do the Q&A facilitation again
    • Thomas__ made new graphs of OSMF membership numbers, I updated the wiki page
    • emailed osmf-talk to remind them about resolutions
  • Replied to email from a company about trademarks
  • Talked to 2 people to run for the board
  • Attented 2 × 1 hour calls from mod subcttee
  • Since I was travelling, I missed the Sept 2021 OSMF Board meeting.
• CWG
  • Promotional Material Programme
    • posted ~600 stickers to Berlin, and Italy
    • ordered another 1,000 OSM Surveyor Was Here stickers, they’re quite popular!
    • After someone asked on the fediverse, I asked if we could make StreetComplete stickers (“I’m not against it”)
  • Wrote a draft OSM Blog post for the Mastodon server
• Sept 2021 Karlsruhe hack weekend
  • First hack weekend in 1½ years (due to corona)
  • It was great to see many people again. Alas we had to keep the numbers small.
  • I talked to xamanu who’s been doing lots of good work with making proper, modern Debian packages for lots of OSM software like mod_tile or Tirex.
  • I attempted to fix mod_tile bug #188 which I have encountered a few times. I haven’t made much progress, but it was fun to get down and dirty with poking an apache module in C.

2021: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug.

2020: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.