As also posted on https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/local-chapters/2018-July/000307.html (Reply there on the mailing list, to keep the discussion at one place.)

On 30.07.2018 11:31, Raphael Das Gupta (das-g) wrote:

Hi all

As already posted in the SotM 2018 Telegram channel:

Local chapters and other local organizations (or unorganizations) shall join local-chapters@openstreetmap.org (this list) at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/local-chapters to coordinate and help each other.

Also, local chapters should inform the OSMF (or relevant working group) if they feel the board, a working group or the foundation can help with something. On the other hand, local chapters feel that by working together, they (the chapters) may be able to provide more services and infrastructure to the community without overloading the the OSMF with things that aren’t exactly OSM “core business”.

There has been discussion about whether to found a working group in which local chapters will coordinate. That shall be futher discussed on the local-chapters@openstreetmap.org mailing list.

(Note that the previous “local chapters” working group was about defining what a local chapter is and has more or less ceased action once that was done and the first chapter had been accepted. Accepting new local chapters is not done by that working group, but by the OSMF board.)

Cheers,

Raphael