Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2024/01/26

January 26, 2024 regular meeting of the OpenStreetMap United States Board of Directors

Call to Order

Diane called the meeting to order at 12:31pm, Eastern, via video conference.

Present:

• Maggie Cawley (Executive Director)
• Diane Fritz (President)
• Brian Sperlongano (Vice President)
• Adam Franco (Treasurer)
• Matthew Whilden (Secretary)
• Priyanka Miller (at large)

Reports

• The Executive Director (ED) provided an update to the board on OSM US’s activities over the prior month.
  • Governance committee has new volunteers to run the election
    • The board approved the following statement: “The OSM US board of directors would like to thank the volunteers for their service on this committee”. Clifford Snow, Ian Dees, Jonah Adkins, Yunzhi Lin, and Russell Deffner
  • Trails Working Group
    • Outreach meeting with Zion Forever
    • Parallel pedestrian working group to launch in March
  • Mapping USA by the numbers
    • 33 new members
    • ~$1,000 in swag sales
    • $150 cost
    • There were challenges with getting links out due to spam filtering due to a one-time Neon error, nothing wrong from the OSM US side.
  • Sandbox environment for TeachOSM and other parties
    • Proposals going out. Estimated at 4 months and $17,000 to start development

New Business

• 2024 budget review and voted to approve the budget
• Board reviewed 2024 priorities
• OSM US Board elections are on track
• Slack
  • Announcement sent out about the decision to head to the free tier.
  • Discussion about the public archive. Board requests a delay in publishing any archive to assess and address privacy concerns.
• State of the Map US 2024
  • Maggie reminds the board to encourage folks to submit presentations. Submission deadline February 29.

Adjournment

• Adjourned at 1:28 pm.
• Next board meeting to be held February 15, 2024